The San Jose Museum of Art will be hosting, starting on November 3 2007 an exbition dedicated to the works and life of Joan Miro, one of the most popular and influential artists of the 20th century. The curators have chosen to present prints made by the artist, selecting around 60 works, all of them rarely seen in public.
 | Born in Barcelona, in 1893, Miro grew up in the small town of Montroig, were he was fascinated by the natural world, animals, the stars and the sea, all of these later becoming important elements of his work and later even symbols. He began studying art in Barcelona and in 1920 he moved to Paris, were he was drawn towards Surrealism, a movement that was just right for him, as it placed subconscious in the middle of art. Despite the fact the later Andre Breton would name "the most Surrealist of us all", the artist preffered to keep away from identifying with any movement, so his mature style showed a great number of influences, from Cubism to Spanish folk art and subjects or Classical themes.
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The prints selected for the exhibition are in whole images of the world through the eyes of a Surrealist artist, ranging from litographies that were used as exhibition posters to complicate or naive compositions and covers.
Photo : sjmusart.org
2007-07-12
