J. Milo's surreal life

? J. Miro is a master of painting in the 20th century and is regarded as one of the great geniuses of surrealist painting. Representative works include Decorative Painting

? J. Miro is a master of painting in the 20th century and is regarded as one of the great geniuses of surrealist painting. Representative works include Decorative Painting of Nursery, Carnival of Harry Kun, Still Life and Old Shoes.

? Miro (1893 ~ 1983), a Spanish painter, is one of the masters of surrealist painting in the 20th century, which is as famous as Picasso and Dali.

? He was born in Montello, tarragona, near Barcelona. It is a bridge for cultural exchanges between the East and the West, the cradle of Roman style, deeply influenced by the Italian Renaissance, the first place to accept modern art, and the country where Picasso and Dali were born.

1. Micro life

1893 On April 20th, Milo was born in Barcelona, Spain. His father is a watchmaker and a silversmith.

The frail little Miro doesn't like reading, but shows interest in painting. But his father didn't support Milo's dream of becoming a painter when he was young. From 65438 to 0907, his father sent him to Barcelona Business School to study management and accounting. However, Miro secretly entered La Lyuja Art School in Barcelona for further study.

1920, 27-year-old Miro came to Paris for the first time. Here, a poor and unknown young painter met Picasso, also from Spain, and the other party bought a self-portrait of him.

In Paris, Miro also got along well with Hemingway, an American writer who lives in Paris as a journalist. They often go to the same boxing gym to practice boxing. In order to help Miro in trouble, Hemingway scraped together 5,000 francs to buy his early important work Farm, which is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, USA.

But Milo's art was not recognized at that time. 192 1 year, Milo held his first solo exhibition, but not a single painting was sold. However, Miro was not discouraged. He left the impression that "although that solo exhibition didn't cause much repercussions, those people who encouraged me gave me greater hope and made me believe that I would succeed."

194 1 year, new york Museum of Modern Art held a grand retrospective exhibition of Miro, which finally put him on the road to success. His famous "Constellation" series was also published in a gallery in new york a few years later, which brought great impact to the American avant-garde art world.

Milo succeeded. 1956, 63-year-old Miro finally had a stable painting space.

Two years later, Miro created a famous ceramic wall for UNESCO-Sun Moon Wall, which became his masterpiece and is still respected by people today.

On February 25th, Miro said goodbye to his beloved wife Bila and his daughter Rhona forever because of a heart attack. In order to commemorate this outstanding master of art, the European cultural and artistic circles designated 1993 as the year of "Miro" and held an unprecedented exhibition of works and artistic activities. If the master knows what is going on underground, he will be greatly comforted.

2. Miniature painting experience

After his recovery, Milo returned to Barcelona and his family allowed him to study in an art school. During the same period, Miro also attended courses provided by St. Luke's Art Group. Antuoni Gotti, the architect of Art Nouveau Movement, was an early member of the group. He had outstanding creativity in architecture, which aroused the enthusiasm of the young student Miro and had a far-reaching impact on Miro. In this art group, Miro met two young artists, Jon braz and joseph lawrence Atticus, and he kept in touch with them all his life. At this time, Milo began to draw.

Barcelona's world is too narrow for an ambitious painter. Paris, after artistic transformation, has a strong temptation to Miro. 19 19 He finally left his hometown and came to Paris, the world art capital, for the first time. During this period, there were many artists in Paris, and there were many treasures in art galleries and museums. But Milo is a poor and unknown young painter. His paintings can't be sold abroad, and he goes hungry almost every day in Paris. But the biggest gain of his first trip to Paris was that he met many friends in the art world, especially Picasso, a painter from the motherland. Picasso bought a self-portrait of himself and kept it in his treasure. After Picasso's introduction, Miro met many artists gathered here.

From 65438 to 0925, Miro participated in the first surrealist exhibition held in Pierre Art Museum. From then on, Miro's works were called dream paintings.

1929 10, Miro married Bila Jankosha. His wife comes from an ancient family, and Milo has been loyal to her all her life. After their marriage, they returned to Paris and lived in a small apartment. At that time, the economy was depressed and artists were badly needed. Miro had to paint without a studio. Two years later, when the painter was 38 years old, his daughter Rhona was born in Barcelona. This is their only child.

Since 1930, Milo's works have been regularly exhibited in new york and other cities. As the leader of surrealism, he has great influence in America. In painting, his fame is second only to Picasso's. Milo's extraordinary sensibility enables him to convey information symbolically and communicate with the audience in a natural artistic language and a way beyond time and space. He vividly expressed the strongest feelings of human love, hate, trust and fear.

3. Miro-Escape Experience

After the outbreak of World War II, Milo could not return to his native Spain. He left Paris and lived in a poetic and charming place near Norway. The scenery there and the free-flying birds infected him, and the painter completed the group painting of Constellation. Due to the brutal bombing by the Germans, Miro had to take his wife and daughter to Paris by train, and Paris was facing German occupation, so the painter had to flee back to his hometown.

World War II finally came to an end and Milo 1947 came to new york. After eight months in America, 1948 returned to Paris from America. Shortly after returning to Paris, people held an exhibition for Milo's works, but his works were rarely sold. An art dealer bought a batch of Milo's works, and his wife cried regretfully and said, "Who will buy this?" We are going bankrupt. " She didn't expect that a few years later, the price of Miro's works soared and doubled.

In the creative theme of his life, the stars in the night sky have become an eternal symbol with endless changes, so some people call him "Prince of Stars".

Miro believes that lust is the most natural, natural and reasonable phenomenon and the driving force of life. He is fascinated by the charm of women. It can be said that the most talked about in his life is the sex life of women and men and women. However, in life, Milo has never touched a woman. He only loved two women in his life: his wife and his daughter.

4. Miro's painting style

Miro's surrealist painting has a distinct personal style: simple modeling, attention to brushwork, careful arrangement of background environment, whimsy, fun and humor, and fresh feeling. Miro has always been proud of the unique traditional culture of his hometown. 1937, Miro painted the Reaper, a large mural against Franco's dictatorship, which was exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris World Expo, just in line with Picasso's guernica. The figure in Miro's painting is a Catalan farmer, and his strong lines show the resistance, pain and unyielding will of the whole nation. Miro jumped from Catalonia's local color to surreal international art style and became an international master of art, which shows that he was not hindered and restricted by local things, but developed fresh freedom from local art.

5. Microscopic appreciation of works

This is his greatest work. Although they look strong, such as black and red monsters painted on a bright blue background, these beasts are not so terrible. Even in the fiercest beast in the artist's mind, people can feel the kindness of the artist.

Harry Kun's carnival is the first surreal picture: a sense of reversal in a strange space. There was a frenzied gathering in the room, and only human beings were sad. The man with a rather elegant beard and a long pipe is staring at the audience sadly. He is surrounded by all kinds of wild animals, small animals and organic matter, and he is very happy. Without special symbolic significance, the painter fully described a brilliant dream image.

The fantasy in Catalan landscape is mysterious and vivid. In this painting, the two planes of yellow and orange intersect on a curve. Hunters and prey draw geometric lines and shapes. Some incredible objects are scattered on the earth, some can be recognized, and some seem to imply life in the ocean or under a microscope.

The more wonderful works are Still Life and Old Shoes, which show the non-political artist's profound reaction to fascists who opposed the Spanish Civil War. The images of still life and old shoes are very clear, including old shoes, wine bottles, apples inserted in forks, and cut bread with one end turned into a skull. All this is arranged in an unpredictable space, and the colors, black and dangerous shapes are disgusting. This work is not a special symbol, but reflects Milo's pain and disgust at the Spanish events he loves. He condemned corruption, disaster and death through objects, colors and shapes. During this period, Milo drew a self-portrait by line drawing. His big eyes and tight lips reflect his concept of terror. The harsh style of painting and the drowsy positive image show that he inherited the early style.

6. Portfolio

20/kloc-April/March, J. Miro's surreal works "Woman" and "Man" were collected and exhibited by the National Gallery of Modern Scottish Art in the form of long-term lease. The National Gallery of Scottish Modern Art has always enjoyed a high reputation in the world for its surreal art collection, but so far, it has never been able to exhibit any important surreal works outdoors. J Millo's works will be exhibited in this gallery for nearly five years.