Images on masonite
Pictures on masonite (example) |
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Joan Miró , 1936 |
Oil on masonite |
78 × 108 cm |
Private collections, various museums
Link to the picture |
The pictures on masonite , in Catalan : Pintures damunt masonita , are a series of 27 abstract paintings by Joan Miró from 1936.
Emergence
The works in the series were created by Miró in Mont-roig del Camp and Barcelona . He began it immediately before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War on July 18, 1936. Shortly after Miró completed the series, he left Spain in autumn 1936 to go to Paris , where he stayed for four years.
description
The pictures, which are all 78.3 centimeters high and 107.7 centimeters wide, were made using a mixed technique of oil paint , tar , casein and sand on masonite (a wood fiber board). The materials, which never cover the entire format, are partially superimposed, and areas of the subsurface are also scratched away. The non-representational pictures made of lines, colored surfaces, depressions and applied materials represent a break with the surreal works of earlier creative periods Miró and belong to the phase of " wild painting " - a term he himself chose to describe his works from 1934 to 1936 to classify.
reception
The art critic, Miró expert and director of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, Rosa Maria Malet, compares the pictures on masonite with the wild paintings on copper and other materials , immediate predecessors of this series.
“On July 18th the civil war was declared. In view of this event, Miró did not paint factual pictures , but a kind of violent and direct exorcism , the 27 pictures on masonite . The wild thing about this series of pictures is not the representations, but the act of painting itself. The monsters are replaced by the painter's attack on the carrier material, which serves as a stimulus . The ground of the picture, the masonite, is never completely covered. At the top Miró put the white of the casein, the black of the tar, the sand […]. The pictures on Masonite have the power of a scream. "
The Museum of Modern Art in New York also emphasizes the violence of the painting technique used:
“[...] It has long been suggested that these works represent Miró's response to the emotional and physical turmoil in his homeland, although the artist himself insisted that they had been produced 'despite current events' . In these works the narrative is replaced by an emphasis on textures and materials - oil and enamel paint, casein, tar, sand and pebbles. In some cases, Miró violently attacked the masonite plates, scratching craters in the fiber-like matrix, which left irreversible signs and convey an impression of rough immediacy. "
The series
plant | Date of origin | technology | Dimensions (cm) | Museum / collection | city | Ref. |
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Picture I. | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Image II | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture III | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Fig IV | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Fig. V | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Fig VI | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture VII | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Image VIII | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Image IX | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Nagasaki Prefecture Art Museum | Nagasaki | |
Image X | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture XI | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture XII | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Image XIII | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture XIV | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 108 × 78 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture XV | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Israel Museum | Jerusalem | |
Picture XVI | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture XVII | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 108 × 78 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Image XVIII | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture XIX | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Image XX | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture XXI | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Fundació Joan Miró | Barcelona | |
Picture XXII | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Picture XXIII | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago | |
Fig. XXIV | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 108 × 78 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Image XXV | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown | |
Image XXVI | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | London | |
Picture XXVII | Summer 1936 | Oil, tar, casein and sand on masonite | 78 × 108 cm | Private collection | unknown |
literature
- Jordi J. Clavero: Fundació Joan Miró. Guia de la Fundació . Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-343-1242-5 .
- Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud: Miró. Paintings II. 1931-1941 . 2000, ISBN 2-86882-037-9 , pp. 158-175 .
- Rosa Maria Malet: Joan Miró . Edicions Polígrafa, Barcelona 1983, p. 14-15 .
Web links
- Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (November 2, 2008 to January 12, 2009) , Includes images of three images from the series
- MoMA Presents the First Major Museum Exhibition to Focus on the Transformative Decade of Joan Miró's Work between 1927 and 1937 Press release on the exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art in New York with a section on the pictures on Masonite , p. 6. (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Online Guide to the Miró Exhibition, Room 5. (No longer available online.) Tate Modern, London, archived from the original on June 29, 2011 ; accessed on August 26, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michele Leight, The City Review : Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937. 2008, accessed October 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Rosa Maria Malet: Joan Miró . Edicions Polígrafa, Barcelona 1983, p. 14-15 .
- ^ MoMA Presents the First Major Museum Exhibition to Focus on the Transformative Decade of Joan Miró's Work between 1927 and 1937. (No longer available online.) Museum of Modern Art, New York, archived from the original on July 8, 2010 ; Retrieved October 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud: Miró. Paintings II. 1931-1941 . 2000, ISBN 2-86882-037-9 , pp. 158-175 .
- ^ Exhibition Joan Miró. L'escala de l'evasió. (No longer available online.) Fundació Joan Miró, formerly the original ; Retrieved October 6, 2011 (Catalan, Spanish, English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.