Joan Miró – Joan Miró Poster, Salsa Gaspar – Barcelona

lithographic poster by the Spanish artist Joan Miró (*). This work was designed on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Sala Gaspar in Barcelona in May 1973, under the supervision of Joan Miró.(*) Joan Miró (1893-1983) was born in Barcelona, but his emotional landscapes, which would shape him as a person and artist, are essentially Mont-roig, Paris, Mallorca, and later New York and Japan. Mont-roig, a small town in the Baix Camp region, will be the counterpoint to the intellectual agitation he experienced in the 1920s in Paris alongside surrealist poets, and the stimulus of abstract expressionism he discovered in the 1940s in New York. Later, in the midst of World War II, Joan Miró will leave his exile in France and settle in Palma de Mallorca, a refuge and workplace where his friend Josep Lluís Sert will design the workshop he has always dreamed of.His roots in the landscapes of Mont-roig and later Mallorca will be decisive for his work. The connection with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the natural environment will form the background for some of his technical and formal experiments. Miró escapes from academism, towards the constant search for a... lees verder bij Catawiki