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Joan Miró
Personatge I Estels I

1979

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Original color etching, woodcut and collage. Edition of 50 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper. Joan Miró was a famous Spanish Catalan surreal painter, sculptor and ceramicist, but he also created graphics, large installations and murals. His radical style for that time was a contribution to the early-20th-century avant-garde and complete abstraction later. Early fauvistic works showed the influence of Cézanne, in cubist compositions, but also a reference to the avant-garde interests of the painter. Few years later he started to change his artistic approach over the magic realism to surrealism. His surfaces become abstract and stayed like that until the rest of his career. Miró’s mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life. The artworks are reflections of his subconscious mind, filled with pictorial signs, biomorphic forms, geometric shapes, and abstract and semi-abstract objects. He worked extensively in lithography and produced numerous murals, tapestries, and sculptures for public spaces. Here are highly abstract shapes combined to represent the artist’s imagination. In the focus are two contrasting color shapes – red and green spots and around them, are black stars.
  • Creator:
    Joan Miró (1893 - 1983, Catalan)
  • Creation Year:
    1979
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 35.83 in (91 cm)Width: 24.81 in (63 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Ljubljana, SI
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: SKU: 16261stDibs: LU2244213494552
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