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TitlePainting
Artistジョアン・ミロ Joan MIRÓ
Date1925
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions97.0×130.0
ClassificationPaintings
Accession NumberFO199400002000
SummaryMiro painted detailed realistic paintings from 1918 to 1923, and then at the end of 1923, he made a radical change, turning to a more imaginative realm. While Miro is generally known as a painter of imaginative, richly colorful, and lively images, the majority of his works from 1924 through 1927 consisted of a monochrome backdrop of blue or brown enclosing an arrangement of just a few forms, lines, dots, and letters moving within that space. These forms seemed to express the world inside the artist's heart, acting as the first symbols of thought and image. As expressed in the line in a letter to his friend Michel Leiris, "I have noticed that the ones [canvases] that have been painted touch the spirit less directly than the ones that are simply drawn," during this period Miro sought to place extreme limits on his expressive methods in order to create a sharp impact on his viewers.

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