Joan Miró
In the Mind of Great Artists
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“I never dream when I am sleeping, but I always dream while I am awake.”
Joan Miró.
The ideologist of Surrealism, André Breton, considered Miró as the most Surrealist of all the members of the movement. And it was because Miró used the creative process defining the search of what is beyond reality: psychic automatism.
The process consists in achieving the total absence of any control performed by reason, liberating the unconscious and painting automatically which it dictates, reflecting our real inner world. Getting carried away by intuition, it could also be defined as “dreaming awake.”
The curious thing is that once Joan Miró explained his first oneiric compositions were a result of hallucinations. Hallucinations provoked by the hunger he felt.
Image: Women and Bird in the Moonlight (1949).
Recommended links:
Salvador Dalí and his Paranoid-Critical Method.
Fundamental Paintings to Understand the History of Painting: The Treachery of Images, Magritte.
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