Joan Miró: Surrealist Constellations at the Grand Palais

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www.smartymagazine.com Joan Miró: Surrealist constellations at the Grand Palais by Lili Tisseyre #PARIS The Grand Palais is currently hosting an impressive and extensive exhibition devoted to the painter Joan Miró. A retrospective that brings together around 150 works by the Catalan master on several floors. Mirò settled in the 1920s in Paris, rue Blomet, where he frequented many artists, poets and writers. He took part in his first surrealist exhibition in 1925 before exploring other languages and other plastic experiments. One discovers, to pass from room to room, like breaths, photos that highlight this proximity, such as Aragon or André Breton. During the Spanish Civil War, he stayed in Paris and embarked on a new realism, with a central play "The Reaper in 1937" before returning to Spain from 1940 to 1955. It was during this period that he designed the 23 constellations and made his first sculptures and ceramics. He produced until his death in Palma de Mallorca in 1983, where he had lived since the 1950s, including his great triptychs and the "Labyrinth", without stopping travelling to Japan or the United States. In each room and for each period, the scenography is introduced by very detailed texts ("The colour of my dreams through Cubism", "Surrealism", "The constellations", "The Ceramics", "The Blues I, II and III" then "The Ultimate Work"), the lighting is very well controlled and the different climates allow the light to highlight each painting of the painter. In front of the superb canvases, our mind escapes in front of the beauty and technical mastery of Joan Miró. His colours and precision are, in these vast spaces, like a constellation (no pun intended) of poetic works in which women and birds are the central characters of these visual romances, right down to the sculptures and his series "Les bleus I, II, III" which complete the meticulous work of the exhibition curators. Finally, the "Ultimate Work", in the last room, seems to speak of Joan Miró as a self-portrait, he who is insatiable, will always be in search of new knowledge, new experiences. His latest paintings evoke a closeness of thought and visions with a certain Cy Twombly and take us even further between poetry and mythology. MIRÒ Grand Palais, Galeries nationales October 3 to February 4, 2019 3 avenue du Général Eisenhower 75008 Paris 11 Jan 2019 #Grand Palais #Mirò #Peinture #Surrealisme copyright: All rights reserved copyright: All rights reserved copyright: All rights reserved copyright: All rights reserved copyright: All rights reserved copyright: All rights reserved copyright: All rights reserved copyright: All rights reserved www.smartymagazine.com Contacts smArty Intern'l Ltd Ibex House Baker Street Weybridge KT13 8AH [email protected] www.smartymagazine.com.

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