Bøger af Janis Mink

Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial works. This title features a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work.

With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (1893-1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and embracing ideologies as varied as Fauvism, Surrealism, Dada, Magic Realism, Cubism, and abstraction. Over the course of his prodigious output, Miró evolved constantly, seeking to eschew categorization and the approval of "bourgeois" art critics as much as he pursued his own dreamlike worlds. Emerging into the public spotlight in the early 1920s, he first experimented with Fauvism and Cubism before developing a distinctive style of symbols and pictograms, arranged in elusive visual narratives, with frequent reference to Catalan life. As his career progressed, Miró moved towards Surrealism, and, despite never fully identifying with the movement, emerged as one of its most celebrated practitioners with techniques including automated drawing, Lyrical Abstraction, and Color Field painting. In later years, he diversified his media further, working with ceramics, textiles, and even proposing sculptures made of gas. Through his vivid colors, dreamlike fantasies, and enigmatic symbols, this book brings together the numerous strands of Miró's kaleidoscopic oeuvre to introduce his fascinating career, its interaction with major modernist movements, and how it made him into a modernist legend.

With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (1893-1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and embracing ideologies as varied as Fauvism, Surrealism, Dada, Magic Realism, Cubism, and abstraction. Over the course of his prodigious output, Miró evolved constantly, seeking to eschew categorization and the approval of "bourgeois" art critics as much as he pursued his own dreamlike worlds. Emerging into the public spotlight in the early 1920s, he first experimented with Fauvism and Cubism before developing a distinctive style of symbols and pictograms, arranged in elusive visual narratives, with frequent reference to Catalan life. As his career progressed, Miró moved towards Surrealism, and, despite never fully identifying with the movement, emerged as one of its most celebrated practitioners with techniques including automated drawing, Lyrical Abstraction, and Color Field painting. In later years, he diversified his media further, working with ceramics, textiles, and even proposing sculptures made of gas. Through his vivid colors, dreamlike fantasies, and enigmatic symbols, this book brings together the numerous strands of Miró's kaleidoscopic oeuvre to introduce his fascinating career, its interaction with major modernist movements, and how it made him into a modernist legend.

Joan Miró (1893-1983) war einer der herausragenden Maler des 20. Jahrhunderts. In seinem Frühwerk zeigt sich deutlich der Einfluss von Fauvismus und Kubismus, doch auch die Landschaft Kataloniens bestimmt jene frühen Arbeiten. Auf Reisen lernte Miró die intellektuelle Avantgarde seiner Epoche kennen - zu seinen Freunden zählten Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, André Masson, Jean Arp und Pablo Picasso.Von Mitte der 1920er Jahre an war Miró bestrebt, jeden direkten Bezug auf Gegenständliches hinter sich zu lassen und entwickelte die Piktogramme, die für seinen Stil typisch wurden. Die Bilder aus dieser Periode, darunter die vielleicht schönsten und bedeutendsten seines gesamten Werks, verzichten auf jegliche Räumlichkeit und auf Verweise auf Gegenständliches. Ab da waren Mirós Bilder von Ziffern, Schriftfetzen, abstrakten Emblemen und spielerisch wirkenden Figuren und Kreaturen bevölkert.Ab 1944 setzte eine außerordentlich fruchtbare Phase im Schaffen des Künstlers ein: Es entstanden ein umfangreiches graphisches OEuvre, monumentale Wandbilder und Skulpturen, aber auch Keramiken. Der katalanische Künstler war bestrebt, auch diesen Arbeiten die Elemente einer abstrakten, ja geradezu mystischen Kunst mitzugeben, und so boten sich dem Betrachter Gesichter, Sterne, Monde, rudimentäre Tiergestalten und Buchstaben dar. Joan Miró entwickelte seinen charakteristischen kalligraphischen Stil aus Formen, die Notaten von Symbolen ähneln. Da er dies auf seine ureigene Weise tat, wurde sein Werk unsterblich.Über die Reih