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Featured Hand Painted
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Joan
Miro (1893-1983), was a Spanish Surrealist painter. He went to Paris in 1919, but before then he had already
met Picasso in Barcelona.
In 1925 he took part in the First Surrealist Exhibition, and, with Dali, was
recognized as the leading Spanish Surrealist. His work tended to become
abstract, although he said: For me a form is never something abstract; it is
always a sign of something. It is always a man, a bird, or something else. For
me an oil painting is never form for forms sake.
Personage
Throwing a Stone at a Bird (1926) was painted at a time when Miro was working at an
intense pitch and in a variety of original and persuasive styles. By 1926 Miro
had moved definitely towards calculation and even anecdote. Personage is
much more deliberate and posed. Indeed, on one level the work seems to be all
about balances and oppositions. The figure throwing the stone combines the
organic contours of its body with the strict linearity of the long straight
line that designates its arms. There is a wry enjoyment of the very specific
fulcrum in the persons body section, from which arms lurch in the effort of
throwing and which topples the body backwards, drawing attention to the
spread-eagled stability of the out-sized foot.
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