The study below was inspired, in part, by my recent birthday as well as by Joan Miró. My mother always used to say, “May you live to be one hundred and twenty.” By her reckoning, I am just past middle age. I don’t feel old and yet, by many standards, I am. I get a […]
I used the shape I discovered yesterday to construct today’s composition. This squashed kidney bean became my older brother‘s* head in his particular plane of reality in that study. I expanded on my Miró-inspired shape by superimposing and rotating that shape to form the basis of another head. I included Mike’s hands, which he uses […]
I love the work of Joan Miró. I would also love to emulate his work but, I have not yet come across any writings that detail his methods. Paul Klee left several volumes of writings summarizing his teachings at the famous Bauhaus. I don’t think it likely that Miró wrote anything like that, so I will […]
Today’s piece is a companion to yesterday’s. A little more information about my process: I drew the design first. Since I drew the lines with a permanent oil pen, I was free to wash the entire paper with watercolor. I chose an earth color, to copy the backgrounds in some of the paintings in Miró’s […]
I continue in my attempt to emulate Joan Miró‘s style of painting. However, the more I do so, the more futile and empty the process seems. Miró developed his art at the beginning of his life, which lasted 90 years; he was surrounded by the likes of Picasso, Matisse and other artists of the early […]
Again, I tried my hand at applying the style of Miró‘s Constellation Series to my own work. What I love about this series is the density of icons and outlines of preposterous beings. I started reading my catalog of the 1993 Miró exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York to get a […]
I have been marveling at Joan Miró‘s constellation series. One in particular really strikes my fancy: The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers. There are SO many icons, outlines and other characters! The title of Miró’s work cited above is an enticement to look for the narrative in the artwork itself. This is the style […]
I wanted to make a colorful background and populate it with linear icons, a vision of something between Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miró: line drawings standing out against an alien landscape. I chose lemon yellow as my key color with the idea of adding reddish earth tones and a dash of green here and there. The […]
Quite a while ago in this blog, I wrote about the artist Joan Miro (Peinture-Poésie). I was fascinated by his paintings and how he used icons. For a while, I tried developing my own expressive shorthand (Narrative or Portrayal of Feelings; ‘Stop’ Icon Development; Icons in Practice; Progress in Iconology). I was, on the whole, […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about how my paint (Creative Process, How Does One Create?). In my quest to be able to paint my own feelings, I have looked at the work of Joan Miró (and his use of icons), Paul Klee (and his theories about the creative process) and Hans Hofmann (and his ‘push pull’ theory […]
