.Miró - from 1970 to 1980
Miró's work is so vast that I present it in several articles. Here I offer, chronologically, my favorites among his creations between 1970 and 1980.
1972
1973
All of Miró's exaltation and passion are found in this painting "May 68" which he only considered finished five years later, in 1973.
“Sobreteixim 13”, from 1973.
We should not look at this work as a Miró, but as a contemporary creation, even though it is almost 50 years old. We could see it at the FIAC under the signature of an ultra trendy artist.
1974
A detail from a huge painting by Miró: “Characters and birds in the night” from 1974. Crazy, Miró was 81 years old when he painted this 6m40 long canvas!
“The hope of the condemned to death” from 1974. In 1974, the Franco regime executed the Catalan anarchist student Salvador Puig Antich.
"Years ago, on a large canvas, I had painted a line, a small white line, on another, a blue line. And then one day, it came... at the moment when we garroted this poor Puig Antich boy. I felt that this was it. I finished this painting the day he was killed. Without knowing it, it is surprising and yet significant that I finished this painting the same day that this poor boy. , Salvador Puig Antich, was executed by means of the strangler cord […] a black line on a whitish background, a black line like a thread that someone cuts because he has strength but no mercy.”
“The Permissionary”, 1974.
1975
“Francesc d’Assís”, 1975. Yes, that’s talent…
For me, the most beautiful book!
A page from "Adonides" texts by Jacques Prévert, engravings by Joan Miró, published by Aimé Maeght in 1975. A technical madness which requires more than 10 years of design and production to publish the 200 copies. Here, the creations of Prévert and Miró intertwine and intertwine to achieve perfection.
1976
"Barbarian in the Snow", 1976.
A real little gem is this painting by Joan Miró: "Woman in a Landscape", from 1977. The strength does not come from the size because the canvas is only 27 x 22 cm. This makes me think of a sentence by Henri Matisse from 1936: "We should be able to render the impression of large even on a very small canvas, since through our tiny pupil, we see life-size objects."
1979
Homage to Gaudi in 1979.
1980
At a glance you can tell if my grandfather was present during a photo taken at the Maeght Foundation. One of his dogs is often in the viewing angle, he never leaves his doggies. Here Miró in his 1980 exhibition. Photo Marc Riboud.
The book La Saga Maeght by Yoyo Maeght, with dedication. Link here