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Joan MiróBoy with Red Sun1938
1938
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Joan Miró rejected the constraints of traditional painting, creating works “conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” as he once said. Widely considered one of the leading Surrealists, though never officially part of the group, Miró pioneered a wandering linear style of Automatism—a method of “random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche.
Miró used color and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon. “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music,” he said.
While he prized artistic freedom, Miró revered art history, basing a series of works on the Dutch Baroque interiors of Hendrick Sorgh and Jan Steen. In turn, Miró has inspired many artists—significantly Arshile Gorky, whose bold linear abstractions proved a foundational influence on Abstract Expressionism.
Spanish, 1893–1983, Barcelona, Spain, based in Paris and Catalonia, Spain.
Details: Joan Miró "Boy with Red Sun" Linocut, 1938
Technique: Original linocut in colours on red Wove paper
Publisher: First Edition published by San Lazzaro for XXe Siecle, Paris
Image dimensions: 12.37 x 9.62 in (31.5 x 24.7 cm)
Signed by the artist within the block, from the first edition linocut issued by San Lazzaro for XXe Siecle, Paris
Excellent condition
- Creator:Joan Miró (1893 - 1983, Catalan)
- Creation Year:1938
- Dimensions:Height: 12.37 in (31.42 cm)Width: 9.62 in (24.44 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cambridge, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2621212801152
Joan Miró
With his wide-ranging oeuvre, comprising strikingly original paintings, prints, ceramics, sculptures, metal engravings and murals, Catalan modernist Joan Miró was a critical force in moving 20th-century art toward complete abstraction. Although often considered an early Surrealist because of his nonobjective imagery and evocation of the subconscious, he defies neat categorization.
Miró’s identity is largely rooted in the city of his birth: Barcelona. To this day, a number of his public artworks can be found there, including the 72-foot-tall statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird), 1983. Female and avian forms, along with bright colors and the theme of Catalan pride, are recurring elements in his work.
The radical visual world Miró created with his expressive lines, signature symbols and biomorphic shapes influenced such American Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Color Field painters like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.
Mirò continued to work and experiment until his death at the age of 90 in 1983. Five years before that, he was quoted saying, “I painted these paintings in a frenzy, with real violence so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go. I’m heading in new directions.”
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