The 6 most important SCULPTURES by Joan MIRÓ

Joan Miro (1893-1983) is a Catalan painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramist who rose as maximum representative of surrealismof him, reflecting in his works the subconscious, his childhood and the Catalan culture and traditions. With regard to sculpture, Miró created his own language playing with shapes, volumes and different materials, in addition to drawing inspiration from the avant-garde such as Dadaism or Surrealism. Thus, the ready-made or the use of everyday materials or the dreamlike were other typical elements of the avant-garde that Miró adopted as his own.

In this lesson from a TEACHER we show you the most important sculptures of Joan Miró so you can discover what his sculptural work is like.

Index

1. Characteristics of Joan Miró's work
2. The most important sculptures of Joan Miró
3. Character with Umbrella (1931)
4. Lunar Bird (1946)
5. The Caress of a Bird (1967)
6. Ceramic mural in the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen (1971)
7. Woman and Bird (1983) or La Dona i l'Ocell

To get to know the sculptures of Joan Miró better, we are going to do, first, a summary of the characteristics of your style and their plays. Here is a review of the most characteristic elements of the artist:

• The first stage by Joan Miró begins in 1928 with three-dimensional sculptural works. A moment in which he tried to create sculptures with a pictorial format, collage being one of his favorite techniques.
• His second stage As a sculptor he started in 1944, at which point he resumed sculpture. In his studio in Josep Lluís Sert and in Son Boter's house, his second studio, he manages to work on different spaces, reaching a greater artistic maturity and great freedom of expression in the sculpture. It is at this time when he adds bronze to the materials with which he works, using it as a way to more easily assemble those objects that he found and with which he carried out his works.
• His third stage starts in 1962, most prolific moment of his artistic career. Thus, Miró transforms the objects he finds in nature, also using new materials and forms full of poetry. He also begins his stage of bronze sculptures in color.
• In his last stage, Joan Miró received numerous commissions from institutions for the realization of large sculpture for the placement of sculptures in public spaces in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Milan, Paris and Chicago. Thus, in April 1981 a monumental 12-meter high sculpture, known as Miss Chicago, was inaugurated in the latter city; In 1982, the sculpture Character and Bird was inaugurated in Houston and in collaboration with Joan Gardy Artigas he produced his last sculpture for Barcelona, ​​Dona i ocell (Woman and Bird), a work in concrete and covered with ceramics.

Miró always tried to excite the viewer and make him interact in a poetic dialogue. Something that surpasses traditional sculpture, in addition to using everything from objects, even the most unlikely, establishing very thoughtful associations, but with that air of composition made at random and always looking for the poetry of all those objects.

Next, we will review the Joan Miró's most famous and recognized sculptures so that you know them and can understand why this artist is considered one of the most outstanding of his time.

In this work the surreal features typical of your first phase. This sculpture is created with the assembly technique using everyday objects to represent a recognizable character. A typical collage of Surrealism and Dadaism. Critics saw a certain irony and provocation in the sculpture, relating the subject to the world of children and the subconscious.

A sculpture in which he employed wood, dry leaves and umbrellas, then continuing to work with small pieces in clay that later became bronze, being his favorite material. Thus, he began working with the smelters and collaborating with them.

Moon Bird It is another of the most outstanding Joan Miró sculptures. The artist uses poetic language to convey to us the feminine and masculine principles, Night and day. Those forces that are in opposition, but complement each other, and that became constant in the artist's work.

The moon bird, unlike The solar bird, is a character close to a character, dynamic and vertical, while the solar bird looks more like a bird, with austere modeling and reminiscent of archaic figures.

This sculpture by Joan Miró is one of the characteristics painted bronze sculptures, typical of the Miró sculptor of the late 60s.

The metal was hidden under a layer of intense color. The Caress of a Bird is a three-dimensional work in which the frontal vision is imposed, but the meaning of the work also changes depending on the viewer's disposition.

In 1956, Unesco commissioned Miró to carry out two ceramic murals for his headquarters in Paris. A 3 x 15 meter and 3 x 7.5 meter mural inaugurated in 1958. Miró, used to large formats, had not worked in ceramics. For this he collaborated with the ceramist Josep Llorens Artigas, managing to obtain a background with textures similar to the paintings of that time.

The composition opted for the themes of the Sun and the Moon, with a multitude of fantastic creatures full of colors, with a large disc of intense red and a blue crescent quarter. A mural full of poetry and expression.

And we end up getting to know one of the most outstanding and well-known sculptures by Joan Miró:The Woman and the Bird or La Dona i l'Ocell is a large-scale concrete work by Joan Miró located in the Joan Miró Park, being the last surrealist work of the artist. The sculpture was made of concrete and covered with ceramic mosaic in red, blue, green and yellow, the typical colors of Miró and placed according to the el technique. trencadis.

The work is 22 meters high and has the appearance of a woman wearing a hat on which a bird has perched. He also wanted to see in the work the representation of a penis and a vulva as a way of transmitting strength and health to visitors in the style of the ancient Roman custom. A third, more poetic explanation tells us about getting closer to the stars and the sky.

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