Joan Miro

[Walter]

Current flavor:

http://joanmiro.com/style-of-joan-miro/

“I will smash their guitar”
~ Joan Miró

[Terri]

Wow! A lot to like here, though this isn't my particular favorite style of painting. But a lot of these are too good to resist! :thumbup:

Great link, Walter.

[Antarctican]

I like his more brightly coloured, stylized works. I hadn't heard of him before, so appreciate the link.

How did his works come to your attention?

[Walter]

Wow! A lot to like here, though this isn't my particular favorite style of painting. But a lot of these are too good to resist! :thumbup:

Great link, Walter.

I like the inspiration I get from artists like this. The concepts presented; everything inside and outside at the same time, a lack of depth but not of detail, proportions according to what they should be rather than what they are, these are all things I may be able to use. Not quite what I prefer either, but hopefully I can make something from them that I do like.

In my early 20s I studied the impressionists. It's only bits and pieces I remember, but still most outstanding to me was reading about these artists intertwining histories and seeing the results of their different thinking. I let it all go when I felt I could do nothing about it.

I'm glad I've picked up the thread again some 35+ years later. I can do something about it now, and I will. Inspiring.

-

[Antarctican]

I'm glad I've picked up the thread again some 35+ years later. I can do something about it now, and I will. Inspiring.

-
:popcorn:

[Walter]

I like his more brightly coloured, stylized works. I hadn't heard of him before, so appreciate the link.

How did his works come to your attention?

I found Miro referenced in an article about Magritte and looked it up. Kind of a throwback process from a technique used read a dictionary (and encyclopedia), look up a word and find out what it means, then look up all the words used to describe the word to find out what they mean--ad nauseum. The internet has made this quite entertaining although there's a lot of repetition to glean information from (I try to use multiple sources rather than get caught in loops).

From Miro I'll probably follow up on Andre Masson, then possibly Matisse from the end of my study of the impressionists. I'm taking my time. There's a lot to be processed and tried before I get my influences too jumbled.

-

[icassell]

I've been a Miro fan since my mom introduced me to this work. She was a major fan. Thanks for the link!

If you like this, consider looking into Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Jean Arp.

[Walter]

I've been a Miro fan since my mom introduced me to this work. She was a major fan. Thanks for the link!

If you like this, consider looking into Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Jean Arp.

Jean Arp:

Arp, Jean or Hans, French artist, active in several fields but principally famous as one of the greatest of abstract sculptors. ...

... involved in 1916 in the formation of the original Dada group in Zurich, ...

... In 1920 he settled in Paris, where he was associated both with Surrealism and with the Abstraction-Creation group. ...

... began to make sculptures in 1930, extending the possibilities of Brancusi's reductive simplifications to create sensual forms, ambiguously evoking human anatomy, stones and ...

from:
http://www.masterworksfineart.com/inventory/arp/


Another Arp biography with a few examples of artwork:
http://www.fantasyarts.net/arp.html

--

Drive by Picasso
I though this was interesting:
http://www.fantasyarts.net/weepingwoman.html

--

[mitica100]

Someone else I admired: Max Ernst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst), which had a direct link to Arizona, being that the Ernst family bought a house in Sedona. Also, Giorgio De Chirico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico).

[Walter]

Someone else I admired: Max Ernst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst), which had a direct link to Arizona, being that the Ernst family bought a house in Sedona. Also, Giorgio De Chirico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico).

Giorgio De Chiroco is very impressive- Max Ernst, a little far out, however, I like "Men Shall Know Nothing of This (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/MenShallKnowNothingofThis.jpg)" very much. I'll have to check out more of their work.

I've been quite surprised at how much I've been enjoying exploring art. For years I've left off at the impressionists and discarded every new thing that has developed since as rubbish, which I can see now, wasn't quite fair.

-