Paintings on masonite

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The images on masonite, Catalan Pintures Damunt masonita, are a series of 27 abstract paintings by Joan Miró from the year 1936.

Formation

The works in the series were created by Miró in Mont Roig del Camp, and Barcelona. He began immediately before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War on July 18, 1936. Shortly after Miró completed the series, he left Spain in 1936 to go to Paris, where he remained for four years.

Description

The images are all 78.3 inches high and 107.7 inches wide, were made ​​( a wood fiber board ) in a mixed technique of oil paint, tar, sand and casein on masonite. The materials that never cover the entire format, this overlap partially, areas of the substrate are also removed by incising. The non-representational images of lines, color surfaces, pits and coated materials represent a break with the surreal works of earlier artistic periods Miró represent and belong to the phase of the " savage painting " - a term which he himself chose to make his works from the years 1934 to 1936 to classify.

Reception

The art critic, Miró expert and director of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, ​​Rosa Maria Malet, compares the images on masonite with painted on copper and other materials, wild paintings, immediate predecessor of this series.

" On 18 July, the civil war was declared. Given this event Miró painted pictures not a fact, but a kind of violent and direct exorcism that. 27 images on masonite The Wilde at this series of pictures are not representations, but the act of painting itself, the monster will be replaced by the attack of the painter to the substrate, which serves as the stimulus. The image base, the Masonite is, it never completely covered. The uppermost Miró put the white of the casein, the black of the tar sand [ ... ]. The images on masonite have the force of a shout. "

The Museum of Modern Art in New York also emphasized that the Violent Technique used:

" [ ... ] It has been suggested for a long time that these works represent Miró's response to the emotional and physical turmoil of his homeland, although the artist himself insisted that they had been produced despite the current events '. In these works, the narrative is replaced by an emphasis on textures and materials - oil and enamel paint, casein, tar, sand and pebbles. Partial Miró grabbed the Masonite boards violently, scratched crater in the fibrous matrix that left irreversible character and give an impression of rough immediacy. "

The series