Katalanische landschaft joan miro biography
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The Hunter (Catalan Landscape), 1924 by Joan Miro
Only two years after he painted The Farm, Miro was spending more time back in Catalonia, trying out ways to distill the essence of his Catalan identity still further.
Katalanische landschaft joan miro biography
He had become friends in Paris with Andre Breton, finding his once longed-for Surrealism. Surrealism, an artistic response to the power of dreams and the subconscious, was only a brief obsession for Miro but its ideas informed his painting of the mid-1920s, and his methods thereafter.
"Every idea has to develop in my unconscious, and sometimes it takes years... The starting point is absolutely irrational, sudden and unconscious: I start off blindly..."
The compulsive detailing of his earlier painting had by the time of The Hunter become a kind of playful shorthand.
He had a powerful sense of the emptiness of his remembered landscape, animated only momentarily by human action; life becomes explicable as a diagrammatic series of gestures and relationships, "the u