| | Joan Miro Ferra was an influential 20th century painter, sculptor, ceramicist and printmaker, who was born in 1893 in the Catalan region of Spain, near Barcelona.
The influence of the rich folklore of Catalonia and interiors of ninth to twelfth century frescoed churches with their crude execution and their simple, flat and cartoon-like imagery and use of primary colours can be seen in Miro's work. In Paris during the 1920s Miró met Pablo Picasso, as well as Surrealist writers and poets - Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Michel Leiris, and others. It was during this period that he created his own style of abstract expressionism, which continued to develop throughout his artistic career. Miro's fascination with the cosmos was first shown in the Constellations series completed in the 1940s, and is revisited in his Archipel Sauvage (Wild Archipelago) of 1970. Miro was introduced to carborundum (silicon carbide engraving) three years before he produced Archipel Sauvage; combining this technique with other printmaking processes, he was able to produce images that rivalled the original qualities of painting.
General introduction to Miró and his work
Symbolic and fantastical, the art of Joan Miró is instantly recognisable by the use of brilliant pure colour and playful juxtaposition of delicate lines with abstract, often amoebic shapes. Drawing on sources as varied as fauvism, cubism, primitivism, and Catalan folk art Miró produced masterpieces of a quality rarely achieved. Miró's work combines both an obsession with the documentation of visual reality in all its detail, and the abstract expression of his subconscious originally influenced by the French surrealist movement.
Born the son of a Catalan goldsmith and jewellery maker, Joan Miró studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the Academia Galí. Despite receiving little encouragement form his parents, Miró was a prolific and determined artist who experimented in all mediums throughout his life, and whose dedication to his art has made him a classic master.
Coskun Fine Art of 93 Walton Street, London continues to build on its position as one of London's leading private art galleries with the exhibition between Jan 18th - Feb 10th 2005 of 'Joan Miró: paintings, lithographs, gravures' for the first time in the United Kingdom.
The exhibition includes Miro's masterpiece sculptures such as Project pour un moment and Personnage et oiseau as well as a cross section of works on canvas and paper that shows the large variety of work that Miro completed throughout his career.
Contact
For more information on the works featured
in the exhibition please contact Gul Coskun at:COSKUN FINE ART. LONDON
93 Walton Street, London SW3 2HP
TEL: 020 7581 9056 FAX: 020 7581 1336
EMAIL: info@coskunfineart.com
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10am - 6pm, Monday - Saturday
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