Joan MIRO - Acid Melody XIV, 1980, Lithograph
Acid Melody XIV, 1980
Lithograph numbered 638/1500 on the bottom left corner and signed in the plate on the bottom right corner
25 x 35 cm
Since the '30s, graphic works by Miró were dedicated to illustrate some poems and stories. Among the authors of the latter can be found Robert Desnos, Pablo Neruda, Alain Jouffroy, Joan Brossa.
In 1980, Miró created a series of fourteen lithographs for the book "La Mélodie Acide" from Patrick Walberg, a writer who dedicated himself to the Surrealist painters and author of several books on Miró.
In these illustrations Miró offers an entertaining blend of shapes and colors that seem to dance to the rhythm of an imaginary music.
Joan Miró :
Spanish painter and sculptor born in Barcelona in 1893, He studies at Barcelona Fine Arts School from 1907 and entirely dedicated himself to painting since 1912. The artist asserts himself throw different mediums, painting, collage, lithography, etching, ceramic, sculpture on marble and bronze...
Miró discovers cubism and fauvism in Paris where he lives in 1920 and meets up with Pablo Picasso, André Masson and dadaïst members, before he become a member of surrealism. He completes his series of "Constellations" (1940-1941) at Palma de Mallorca where he stays in 1956. In 1942, he comes back to Barcelona then to United States five years later and begins monumental painting ("Composition with ropes", 1950, Eindhoven). From years 1960, his paintings show a new space research, often monochrom ("Blue I, II, III", 1961). His latest works are monumental statues for Chicago (1981), Houston and Barcelona (1982). The artist died in Palma de Mallorca in 1983.
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