Fundacio Joan Miro - The exhibits, 2

Fundacio Joan Miro - The exhibits, 2

As always I am including the introduction from the first post. If you do not want to read it again, scroll down to the second picture after this.

We really enjoyed the time we spent in this wonderful museum. Even though it's a museum dedicated to the work of Joan Miro, many of the artworks exhibited are by another artist whose work has similarities with Miro's. An interesting way of presenting art, and one that I enjoyed enormously as it gave me an opportunity to find out about artists I did not know, or to see paintings I love once again.

Joan Miro i Ferra, 1893-1983, a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist. His work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was interested in the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride.  In numerous interviews Miro expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an 'assassination of painting' in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

He combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. His mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life. He worked extensively in lithography and produced numerous murals, tapestries and sculptures for public spaces.

Though often referred to as a Surrealist, Miro considered his art to be free of any 'ism'. He experimented throughout his career with different media - painting, pastel, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, collage, muralism and tapestry - and unconventional materials as a way of making work that expressed the contemporary moment without relying on realism.

Louise Bourgeois, Untited, 1940s

Bourgeois created these totemic Personages as 'a tangible way of re-creating a missed past'.

Joan Miro, His Majesty the King,

These may fruitfully be compared to Bourgeois' Totemic Personages

Herbert Ferber, The Sun, the Moon and the Stars, 1950s

Roberto Matta, Psychological Morphology, 1939

Peter Miller, Ceremonial Objects, 1940

Salvador Dali, The Spectre of Sex-Appeal, 1934, (oil on canvas)

Yves Tanguy, The Minotaur, 1943

Sonja Sekula, African Moonsun, 1945, (oil on canvas)

Joan Miro, Barcelona Series, 1944, (lithograph)

Joan Miro, Barcelona Series, 1944, (lithograph)

Joan Miro, Barcelona Series, 1944, (lithograph)

Louise Bourgeois, Difficut Pivoting, 1947

Stanley William Hayter, 1947

Yves Tanguy, Rabdomancia, 1947

Joan Miro, Sunrise, 1959

Joan Miro, The Ladder of Escape, 1959

Joan Miro, The Morning Star, 1959

Joan Miro, Woman in the Night, 1959

Joan Miro, Still Life with Old Shoe, 1937

Arshiloe Gorky, Garden in Sochi

Joan Miro, Woman and Birds

Joan Miro, Woman and Birds at Sunrise, 1946

Janet Sobel, Illusion of Solidity, 1945

Theodoros Stamos, Untitled, 1946