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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
This room was the most surprising of all. Here the curators of the exhibition placed the collages that Miró made of machinery next to the paintings that Miró painted of the collages. His work suddenly made more sense to me. On the level of intent, I understood the statement he is making about modern life and how we interact with it.
Collage (study for Painting, March 8, 1933), Barcelona, January 28, 1933
Printed paper and graphite on paper
18 11/16 × 24 3/4"
Painting, Barcelona, March 8, 1933
Oil and aqueous medium on canvas
51 3/8 × 64 1/4"
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 ...