My Favorite Surrealists: Focus on Joan Miro

The Lark's Wing, Encircled with Golden Blue, Rejoins the Heart of the Poppy Sleeping on a Diamond-studded Meadow, 1967, Oil on canvas

Dancer, 1925, Oil on cardboard

Ladders Cross the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire, 1953, Oil on canvas

The Farm, 1921-1922, Oil on canvas

Quick trivia for those who are too lazy to read the links below, The Farm was bought by Ernest Hemingway for 5,000 francs.  He loved the painting so much and actually said "I would not trade it for any picture in the world. It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there. No one else has been able to paint those two opposing things."

The Garden, 1925

If you want to learn more about Joan Miro, here are useful links:


http://www.joan-miro.info/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/mar/20/joan-miro-life-ladder-escape-tate
http://kateri.blog.com/2010/10/25/joan-miro-the-garden-1925-prades-the-village-1917/
http://joanmiro.com/
http://www.arthistoryguide.com/Joan_Miro.aspx
http://fundaciomiro-bcn.org/fundaciojoanmiro.php?idioma=2

Miro:  Sculptor by Michal Boncza
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/117684


Whole New Dimension:  Miró’s sculptures reveal how the challenge of a new medium
inspired the artist in his final years 
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a7afc2f4-7296-11e1-9be9-00144feab49a.html#axzz1rnQQ6P5P

Facades

Today I feel like this:




This art work's title is The Great War on Façades (La Grande Guerre Façades), by Rene Magritte. You might be more familiar with his The Son of Man, which was referenced/featured in films like The Thomas Crown Affair, Stranger Than Fiction and 500 Days of Summer:



Various interpretations of Magritte's art works are available online. If you want to read more on him, click on the following:

http://nomad0307.blogspot.com/2009/01/ceci-nest-pas-une-vie.html
http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=22
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/magritte.html
http://www.dropbears.com/a/art/biography/Rene_Magritte.html

Today, I feel like the woman on the The Great War of Facades painting. Although I'm thankful I don't ever have to wear that silly frilly dress in real life, today it symbolizes all the preconceived notions of people about me. That flower is my f--- you to those who have boxed me in their labels.

And enough of the bitch-fit. I love Rene Magritte's work. Actually, I love almost all surrealist artists. They are such brave inventors of each of their own unique universes. As Magritte said:

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.