RANDOM ARTISTS - JOAN MIRO

a tribute to Miro
Joan Miró (April 20, 1893 -- December 25, 1983) was a Catalan! painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain He was a Surrealist
Miró often expressed his contempt for conventional painting methods and he yearned for more contemporary means of expression.
Young Miró moved to Paris in 1920. He said that many of his ideas came from ideas as he laid hungry in bed.
In 1926, he collaborated with Max Ernst.
Miró married in 1929.
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"What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. "
Miro
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I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness
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For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings
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My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details
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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness
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The Tilled Field - In the midst of a landscape with animals and other objects relating to the field are a large ear and eye.- the painter has entered the painting!
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The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun
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My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeLling, coloUrs, and the figuration of the personages.
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I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful
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For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes
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I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive
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In a picture, it should be possible to discover new things every time you see it. But you can look at a picture for a week together and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.
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• LOVE

[hibrazil]

It's a beautiful tribute. I love the concept of the "dog barking to the moon". He uses an wood stair to represent the human ascension back to the source, the "religare" thing. While the dog is barking, that represents the phenomena in the world that is just perceptible by the senses. It's a 6th sense work, like all things made by Miró. I have a ceramic, brought to me by a friend that are living here in Brazil, that contains a paint of Miró, bought in a spanish museum. Oh, I like Dali, too...

[RANDOMATNESS]

thanks for this fascinating insight

[rockchick80s]

Very interesting - don't know a great deal about Surrealism - have a friend who is a big Dali Fan and only know a litle bit. I am a big Klimt fan myself.

[RANDOMATNESS]

will put Gustav into draw hat but could be copyright problems

[pickwick8080]

I have already nominated my artist - MAX ERNST - but would like to nominate a particular painting - THE COUPLE

[RANDOMATNESS]

a very good choice - I hope it survives the draw

[mluisaan]

I have just added your video to my favourites. Only today I've seen your message... Thank's for it and... I hope I can watch new videos from you, so excellent as this one...

[CousinoMacul]

I love Miró! Maternity is one of my favorites of his (though I have to say that I love that quote asociated with Dog Barking At The Moon).

[qualqui]

Very interestin' Randy, thanx for the share, obviously another FIVER of a vid! = )

[PK441041]

Sometimes mysterious, but I like the way you combine different things- better than a solo exhibition show.

[MUSICOBLISS]

Thank You for the inventation of Miros work. It is lovely. Well put 2gether in its collective way. Enjoyable !

[j8u1i]

I'm amazed !..thanks for sharing ! :))

[Sinestro7]

Wow just Love Miro!

[elviradark6]

this is amazing! thanks Ezequiel, for the share =)

[BleedingPalms131]

abit slow for my taste but very well put together.

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