Joan Miro Spanish, 1893-1983
"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music..."-Joan Miró
In the 1960s, Miro devoted more time to printmaking, creating lithographs, etchings and aquatints. Miro was attracted to printmaking and sculpture as a respite from the solitary nature of painting, and as an opportunity to work together printers and other artisans. These experiences enhanced Miro's own creative repertoire. For instance, one notices the caligraphic nature of Miro's Femme dans la nuit ('Woman in the Night'), a wax crayona dn watercolor composition from 1967-1971, which could easily have been conceived as a study for a lithograph, despite its size and being of mixed-media.
Miro recognized an advantage in printmaking, stating: "A painting is a unique example for a single collector. But if I pull seventy-five examples, I increase by seventy-five times the number of people who can own a work of mine. I increase the reach of my message seventy-five times." Miro died on December 25,1983, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music..."-Joan Miró
In the 1960s, Miro devoted more time to printmaking, creating lithographs, etchings and aquatints. Miro was attracted to printmaking and sculpture as a respite from the solitary nature of painting, and as an opportunity to work together printers and other artisans. These experiences enhanced Miro's own creative repertoire. For instance, one notices the caligraphic nature of Miro's Femme dans la nuit ('Woman in the Night'), a wax crayona dn watercolor composition from 1967-1971, which could easily have been conceived as a study for a lithograph, despite its size and being of mixed-media.
Miro recognized an advantage in printmaking, stating: "A painting is a unique example for a single collector. But if I pull seventy-five examples, I increase by seventy-five times the number of people who can own a work of mine. I increase the reach of my message seventy-five times." Miro died on December 25,1983, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
