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Did Miró Assassinate Painting?
Joan Miró, Potato, Montroig, July-December 1928 Oil on canvas 39 3/4 x 32 1/8"
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Valerie Atkisson
Prior to starting ArtBistro, Valerie lived and worked as an artist in New York City for ten years. Her work has been shown at New York galleries and museums and been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times. Valerie taught art for eight years part-time at Grace Church School and most recently at Brigham Young University. She has collaborated on a number of commercial enterprises with composers, designers, writers, photographers, and dancers. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with her Master of Fine Arts in 1998. ArtBistro Portfolio
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Valerie Atkisson / ArtBistro
October 12, 2009
The last painting in this exhibition is on canvas again. Miro comes full circle back to his painting. Did he assassinate it or make improvements? Did he tear painting down to its elements and build it back up? I think that he blew out the boundaries to make more room for what was to come.
Still Life with Old Shoe, Paris, January 24-May 29, 1937
Oil on canvas
32 × 46″
Kelsey
3 months ago
8 comments
Some of his stuff is interesting and reminds me of amoebas or strange, misshapen organisms. However other pieces look like they could have been done by a 5 year old and with their muted colors and primitive styling dont jump out at me or interest me. The last painting though with its bright coloration, confusion with foreground and background, and abstract but almost recognizable objects, is rather beautiful. Some people give art a higher meaning by what the artists has to say about it, but I like to use my own eyes and mind to be the judge. Otherwise its more like philosophy.
CurtMaryAnn
10 months ago
96 comments
Thanks! Great review and tour.
MarieKazalia
10 months ago
48 comments
Glad to see an article on an art exhibition with images of the art under discussion. Miro's work is great. His 1937 painting *Still LIfe with Old Shoe* is one of my favorite Miro paintngs of that phase of his development
jhaber31
10 months ago
824 comments
fwiw, I've got a review: http://www.haberarts.com/jmiro.htm
modartist
10 months ago
158 comments
to doctorshock....u dont know what ur talking about! i suppose ur one of these studio artist learning to paint flowers and grapes in a bowel like everyone else who has no individual thought process!
later man!!!................Rudy
deesteeze
10 months ago
4 comments
I understand well the intent of Miro it is the pushing or development of an Ideal that challenges human thought in order to push the notion of what can be obtained or debunked in thought. Did he destroy this process-no way. For just by looking at the work that came after his experiments one can purely observe a begining into several art movements.
doctorshock
10 months ago
12 comments
miro is in a group of artists who are way over rated an poor excuses for artists ...