Joan Miró: Style - Colour - Line

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The works on display in the exhibition were created after the Second World War. Most of them were made using lithographic techniques. The works were grouped into cycles, often relating to specific publications for which they were developed. A unique piece in this collection is a small-scale etching entitled Stars and Dancers. The print was rebound in 1956 from a plate developed in 1938, and is the only work in this collection made using a technique other than lithography. In the graphic, schematically depicted figures dance amidst symbolic stars, moons and suns. Also on display at the museum are prints from several issues of the famous magazine Derrière le Miroir. With the opening of the Paris headquarters of the Galerie Maeght, with which Miró was a regular collaborator, the publication of this magazine began, featuring supplementary material for exhibitions, including prints by Joan Miró in series specially designed by the artist. The artist was a prolific printmaker and was one of those contemporary artists who, like Picasso and Chagall, made his works available to a wider public by having them printed in large series or in special editions by prestigious publishers.

Joan Miró was born in 1893 in Barcelona. The artist had strong emotional ties to his native Catalonia. An artist with wide-ranging interests, he devoted himself to painting as well as to printmaking, sculpture, ceramics or work with textiles. Next to Salvador Dalí, he is the most famous Spanish Surrealist. Initially he worked under the strong influence of Cubism and Fauvism. From the 1920s onwards, he produced works maintained in the characteristic 'childlike' form for which the artist is best known. Miró's later works show a clear interest in the achievements of American artists under the banner of abstract expressionism. A particular colour scheme was often repeated in the artist's works, consisting of clear, intense reds, greens, cobalts or yellows associated with countries with warm climates. The clearly guided black line was also an important element of the works. The artist died in Majorca in 1983.

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