1925, Joan Miro, Painting -- Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice)
Against the brown 'mud' something is taking place: a black fissure penetrates an 8-shaped figure, its eye' with spidery black lines indicating sight or consciousness. This was one of approximately one hundred paintings by Miró of the mid 1920s that are known as 'peintures-poésies', or dream paintings. They come after a period in which Miró had painted minutely detailed and crowded scenes of his native Catalonia-which makes Painting all the more startling for its abstraction and relative emptiness.
1925, Joan Miro, Painting -- Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice)
Against the brown 'mud' something is taking place: a black fissure penetrates an 8-shaped figure, its eye' with spidery black lines indicating sight or consciousness. This was one of approximately one hundred paintings by Miró of the mid 1920s that are known as 'peintures-poésies', or dream paintings. They come after a period in which Miró had painted minutely detailed and crowded scenes of his native Catalonia-which makes Painting all the more startling for its abstraction and relative emptiness.