Women, Birds, and a Star
1949
by Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Painting
Joan Miro
In Miro's early career, he was associated with French Surrealism and it's advocates, including fellow countryman Salvador Dali, who also resided in France. When advancing troops forced him to leave France in 1940, Miro returned to Spain and settled in the village of Palma de Mallorca. His exit from the world's center of art was typical of the fiercely independent Miro, who rejected the ideas of the established art world and membership in any artistic movement. It was about this time that Miro began to experiment with a visual language of his own making. So complex and intricate was his art's vocabulary of symbols and shapes, Miro was often asked to translate the meaning of what he'd painted. "How did I think up my drawings and my ideas for painting? Well I'd come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I'd go to bed, and sometimes I hadn't any supper. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a notebook. I saw shapes on the ceiling."
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