| Title | : | Miró: El pintor de las estrellas (Biblioteca ilustrada) (Spanish Edition) |
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| ISBN | : | 8480769963 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9788480769969 |
| Language | : | Spanish; Castilian |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 |
| Publication | : | First published October 1, 2013 |
Los libros en esta serie maravillosamente diversa abordan temas como la arqueología, el arte, la cultura, la historia, la literatura, la ciencia y la religión de una manera dinámica e informativa. Los textos son reforzados por datos históricos rigurosos y se acompañan de fotografías vibrantes y cuadros sinópticos. Todos los volúmenes en esta colección son una introducción exhaustiva al tema que se expone. Una introducción ideal al jovial mundo visual de Joan Miró, este libro ofrece un resumen biográfico de uno de los mejores y más queridos artistas del siglo XX cuyo lenguaje pictórico fue apropiado por una gama de causas modernas y vanguardistas. Con más de 100 reproducciones a todo color, este libro contempla no tan sólo las pinturas por las cuales Miró es famoso, sino que también sus experimentos igualmente innovadores en otras áreas, tales como la cerámica, el grabado, la escultura y el diseño de escenario. El sentido de juego y placer tan contagioso de Miró está perfectamente representado en esta biografía introductoria.
Miró: El pintor de las estrellas (Biblioteca ilustrada) (Spanish Edition) Reviews
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Although Joan Miró’s name is hardly less known than that of Dalí’s or even Picasso’s, his art seems strikingly less popular. I have been told by several people that they cannot appreciate it. And, indeed, I was often left cold by the works I had seen in the Reina Sofia—some of which seems to confirm every negative stereotype about modern art. But I wanted to give Miró another chance; so I visited the Fundació Miró in Barcelona, and read this book.
One of the most difficult tasks before any young artist is to develop her voice. By “voice” I mean many things: style, philosophy, identity, themes, and so on, which taken together make an artists work immediately recognizable as hers. In a word, this requires originality. One might be inclined to think that originality is the easiest thing to achieve—being the natural product of everyone’s differences. But to produce a deeply original work—one that could not have been produced by anybody else—is anything but easy. Artistic voice emerges in a dialectical process with one’s influences, as they are first mastered and then synthesized, until gradually something appears which cannot be traced to any influence.
This process is most easily seen among painters. And it is wonderfully illustrated in Miró, whose work incorporated fauvism, surrealism, and cubism. But it wasn’t only artistic trends that shaped the young painter. He was deeply inspired by natural sights—particularly the countryside near Montroig (near the city of Tarragona, in his ancestral Catalonia). The voice that Miró developed through his formative experiences and influences is unmistakable—displaying a sensibility for forms and color that no other artist could replicate. And consequently one feels, upon entering the Fundació Miró, the same way one feels upon entering the Dalí Museum in Figueres—that one is entering a new visual universe that obeys different laws.
In short, I have come to enjoy Miró’s work far more than I had. I find in it a sense of playfulness, and sometimes a sense of peacefulness, that is deeply appealing; and I enjoy watching his manipulation of forms shift throughout his work, while remaining recognizably Miró, like a theme and variations. But I still must admit that it does not affect me very deeply. My appreciation, in other words, is more intellectual than emotional. And I think that would have suited Miró just fine.
This little book is full of glossy pictures and does an excellent job in covering the different phases of Miró’s career. -
No puc pensar en un altre pintor que defineixi millor la cultura mediterrània i Catalunya. Miró, tot i que tingui obres de dubtosa qualitat, és per a mi un geni per molts incomprès.
