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~ Lithograph printed in colors on heavy wove Guarro paper, 1974, signed in stone lower right.

These playful pieces are at once abstract and figurative. Further, as we know Miro, there is a fresh and simple balance between the striking colors and the dark, between the thickness of the black swabs of paint and the whimsical pencil curls, the attempt at geometry and the circular. The forms are melodious and colorful, scribbled and swabbed - while balanced with the acidity of the lithography technique which sinks into the plate and gives rich form to the colors. In this series, a single form provides the leading tone throughout each print.

Miro lithograph series#

Here is some supplemental information about the Lithograph: Print from the portfolio La Melodie Acide which includes 14 lithographs on 13 x 10 inch arches paper, plate signed, and hand numbered out of 1500.Melodie Acide (Acid Melody, 1980), has been reproduced as a series of 14 Lithographs within a catalogue raisonn. The condition of this piece has been graded as A: Mint. The overall size of the Lithograph is 13 x 10 inches. 'La Criatura from La Melodie Acide XVIII' by Joan Miro, Unsigned Lithograph printed in 1980 from an edition size of 1500.

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The 40 plates reproduced here sample the pith of his lithographic production-a series produced in 1944, full of the eerie images and droll distortion he had sought on canvas for decades.Condition: As New. The lithographic print medium suited and encouraged the artist's lifelong, often radical, obsession with stripping art to the marrow. Miró's line recalls Picasso's in clarity and power the Catalan's plastic aggressiveness led him, as it did his Andalusian friend, to bold, successful experiment and innovation in ceramics, sculpture and printmaking, especially lithography. They also enlarge the boundaries of lithographic technique as they simultaneously show Miró, now stripped of his brilliant colors, to be an equal master of black-and-white.Īs regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.-Miró Falling in a period of intense creative mingling of whimsy with the grotesque, these prints characterize an important juncture in Miró's career. These lithographs were executed shortly after finishing the famous constellation series of paintings (called by one critic the most intricate, most elaborately developed of all Miró's compositions), right around the time his mother died and he fired his first ceramics in collaboration with Artigas. Miró hallucinates on stone for these prints, filling them with monstrous beasts and one-eyed aliens adrift in a heaven of moons and stars and black nebulae, floating breasts and generative organs. It's never easy for me to talk about my painting, wrote Miró, since it is always born in a state of hallucination induced by some kind of shock, objective or subjective, for which I am not personally responsible in the least. The 40 plates reproduced here sample the pith of his lithographic production - a series produced in 1944, full of the eerie images and droll distortion he had sought on canvas for decades. Eerie, droll, technically brilliant, and aggressive.Īs regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.

About the Book Forty important lithographic prints with line and composition comparable to the works of Miro's friend Picasso.