Joan Miró – Lithograph for the County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Description

Joan Miró, Lithograph for the County Museum of Art, Los Angeles is an original Lithograph made in 1969. It is signed in pencil in the lower right and numbered in the lower left from the edition of 100.  Published by LACMA.  Printed by Mourlot. Image Size: 25 x 18 1/4 inches.  M.623.

Joan Miró was a widely considered one of the leading Surrealists, although he was never officially part of the group. He pioneered a wandering linear style of Automatism — a method of “random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. Miró rejected the constraints of traditional paintings by creating works “conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” as he once said. He used color and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner. His compositions combine abstract elements with recurring motifs such as birds, eyes, and the moon. “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music,” he said. Miró has inspired many artists, most significantly Arshile Gorky, whose bold linear abstractions proved a foundational influence on Abstract Expressionism.