![]() ![]() The literal images which had formerly dominated in his work became transformed, as though by magic, into symbolic forms of intense poetic meaning. André Breton soon stated that a young painter of such concentrated sensibility could be considered to be the most Surrealist among them. Never has he lost his appreciation of nature, but Surrealism encouraged him to see it more intensely through the eyes of his imagination. His art teacher in Barcelona had said to him, “Walk in the mountains with a crown of eyes round your head,” and at an early age he had painted very sensitive landscapes as well as portraits, still lifes, and nudes. Having lived close to nature in the countryside of Catalonia, he realized that there were two main sources from which he must gain nourishment, the primitive, pantheistic wonders of nature and the mercurial brilliance of words.īefore going to Paris Miró had been highly sensitive to the splendor and charm of his native countryside. He found his closest friends among them were the poets, a vital step toward his development and his exploration of the sources of inspiration. ![]() Contact with them rapidly enlarged his appreciation of the arts, and French literature. ![]() Immediately a great sympathy sprang up between them, and Picasso bought from the young Catalan a recent self-portrait.īy luck and good judgment Miró soon found himself accepted by this inspired group, alive to revolutionary ideas. He was also inevitably drawn at an early date to call on his compatriot, Pablo Picasso, who had moved to Paris nearly twenty years before. Miró, an enthusiast for all that was exciting in both poetry and painting, soon found the atmosphere that attracted him most centered around a newly formed group, the Surrealists, young revolutionaries who believed in the essential unity between painting and poetry and the essential value of both in human life. He came from Barcelona to explore the arts in a whirlpool of excitement that had been created by artists from all over Europe as well as some pioneers from America. AMONG THOSE ARTISTS WHO brought new life into the arts in Paris in the years between the two World Wars there was a young Catalan, Joan Miró, who had come to follow up the excitement that had been awakened in him by the visits to his native city of young French painters and poets and even the great Ballet Russe of Sergei Diaghilev. ![]()
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