Peinture (Composition) [1933]
Miró, Joán
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1933Description
Object (or "figure") in lower left corner; This large canvas (cat. Rais. II, No. 416) is one of the eighteen "Peintures" ("Paintings") executed in a planned series, in his workshop in Barcelona, from early March to mid-June 1933. For one who had said in 1928 he wanted to "assassinate painting" (and indeed, since 1929, most of his research experiments consisted of collages, assemblages of poor materials, or amalgams of various textures, or in pictorial exercises that had the rage of "graffiti") here is the challenge of pure painting taken up in a triumphant return, almost as jubilant as the execution of the series is fast. It manifests a new plastic language: a kind of alphabet of biomorphic shapes unfolds throughout the large eighteen wall panels. Source: Centre Pompidou [website]; http://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ (accessed 5/19/2015)
Type of Work
painting (visual work)Subject
abstraction, organic, plastic, Twentieth century, Surrealist
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