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By comparing Spanish artist Joan Miro's finished paintings and sculptures with more than 1200 of his sketches and preparatory studies, Gimferrer places Miro's art in a surprising new perspective. Marvelously illustrated with 285 radiant color plates and 1276 in black-and-white, this intensive analysis of Miro's creative process explains how he would first isolate some element from the teeming outside world, then incorporate a graphic sign into it, thus setting in motion a transfigurative process in which objects, signs and symbols underwent a constant metamorphosis. In placing Miro's preliminary drawings alongside the pictures to which they gave rise, Spanish poet and art critic Gimferrer illuminates the inner alchemy by which Miro discovered his major motifs and set them loose in a free-floating pictorial universe. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Whenever, I visited Barcelona in the course of my work, I made it a mission to visit the Juan Miro Fundacion. Because they rotated the works, I was often rather disappointed with what was on show.....but I guess it also gave me the chance to be exposed to a wide range of his work. I recall a friend from Barcelona explaining to me that much of his work was only slightly disguised erotica with hairy vulvas on prominent display ...and that this was not widely recognised but had been satirised by some performance artists in Barcelona itself. Be that as it may, I like a lot of Miro's art ....especially for his juxtaposition of bold sweeps of colour and black....and what Gimferra tries to bring out in this work is that these rarely sprang directly from the brush of Miro but there were antecedent works. Usually sketches, on paper. And sometimes there was a clear evolution of the work or it could be traced back to a photograph or another drawing. I recall, that when my son was in kindergarten at the American School of Madrid, that his great teacher (Stan) wrote to Miro and asked him to make a sketch that the kids could colour in. And, sure enough, Miro responded so our little five year olds could colour in a copy of an "original" Miro drawing. (I think Stan retained the original for "safekeeping"). I'm not sure if the coloured in version ever survived. But I've always had a soft spot for Miro after that experience. This is not the best collection of Miro's work though it does have some lovely examples of his work but it is really impressive for the way ddthat the author has painstakingly tried to connect the sketches and antecedent works with the finished objects and show the various developments. Yes...sometimes it's a bit too painstaking and boring but one can skip those bits. It's a large Poligrafia edition with high quality printing. Altogether a lovely book and i'm happy to give it five stars. ( )