Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Painting on White Ground
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Painting on White Ground
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Joán Miró (Spanish painter, 1893-1983)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. 673 (1976.23)
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Location Note:
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Paseo del Prado, 8
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GPS:
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+40.416111-3.695
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Date:
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1927 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Catalan; Spanish
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Style Period:
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Surrealist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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55 cm (height) x 46 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; nonrepresentational art
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Description:
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Most of Joan Miró’s paintings dating from between 1925 and 1929 are no longer descriptive as before and are practically monochrome. The only motifs that appear against the extensive blue, white, ochre or gray backgrounds are a series of undulating biomorphic forms, created by the dictates of dreams or spontaneous impulses, which Jacques Dupin identified as "the last stage in Joan Miró’s dream paintings" and William Rubin as an example of his "automatic painting." However his working method was to do spontaneous drawings, then carefully transfer those to canvas. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MIRO-TBM-PWG-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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