Fafa Fine Art Gallery

Joan Miró
1893 Montroig, 1983 Palma di Maiorca
Joan Miró enrolled at the School of
Arts of Barcelona in 1912.
His initial artistic work was influenced
by the countryside environment
of Montroig (where he lived)
and by his contacts with Picasso
and Tristan Tzara, an influence
which conferred to his works an
avant-garde aspect and one of poetic
evocation in which he willingly
lingered and accentuated descriptive
details.
Fantastic and dreamlike visions animate
his works. As the artist himself
wrote: “Hallucinations take the
place of exterior models. I paint like
in a dream in the outmost freedom”.
His research towards his own stylistic
language drove Miró to undertake,
from 1928, new experiments
with mental association techniques
and the process of disintegration
and reconstruction: works on paper,
“poetic paintings”, collages,
lithographs and “surrealistic objects”
attest to this new interpretation
which was nothing but the return
to previous technique, applied
to new themes.
Trips to the United States and contacts
with American artists influence
his work which, painted at
first with a poetically simplified surreal
language, becomes a triumph
of colour, in the sign of the outmost
freedom of form guided by fantasy.
POSTER FOR THE CARCASSONNE FESTIVAL 1980
Colour lithograph, 833mm by 592mm, on Arches paper, signed in pencil and numbered
53/75, published by the Conseil communal de la culture de Carcassone, France