A couple of weeks ago, the Fundació Joan Miró set up an exhibition in Santiago, Chile to show (unsurprisingly) the works of the Spanish painter Joan Miró. The exhibition began on July 31st, and is running until October 26th, showing over a hundred of Miró’s works spanning a period of fifty years. Miró was a man of many talents; his works include paintings, sculptures, drawings, tapestries and others. But the exhibition has an interesting subject: matter.
The title of the show is “Joan Miró: La Fuerza de la Materia”. The Power of Matter. The show focuses on Miró’s interest in matter, his use of many techniques, his use of many mediums, his experimentation, and his artistic freedom when exploring the concept of matter. Miró’s works saw drastic change during his decades-long career, with him switching styles from Fauvism to Realism to Surrealism. During his lifetime, Joan Miró experimented with all kinds of artistic mediums in order to find purity in art. Through his experimentation, Miró not only created some of his most famous works, but also inspired many well-known artists, such as Alexander Calder, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock. So thanks Señor Miró for inspiring Pollock, so that action painting could become an acceptable art form among bored adolescents in school art classes.
For the index of all of Miró’s work, click here.