Blue I and II - Joan Miro
The Blue paintings by Spanish "artist" Joan Miro are classic examples of modern art confusion. According to Wikipedia, Miro was against the standard forms of painting because they supported the bourgeoisie, so he wanted to destroy those conventions.
How could representational paining technique support a certain group? Maybe I dont understand the context, but his apparent answer was to make paintings that represented nothing, except subconscious fantasy (at least, thats what they say).
If he wanted to be against the bourgeoisie he could have tried making actual art that would inspire emotions and thoughts against them, instead of just making colorful designs. Here are some of his own words about what inspires his paintings:
"How did I think up my drawings and my ideas for painting? Well I'd come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I'd go to bed, and sometimes I hadn't any supper. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a notebook. I saw shapes on the ceiling..."
Right. Does this sound like the creation of valuable art to you? Shapes on the ceiling that some supper-less Parisian hallucinates?
There's really not much more to say about this particular series of paintings. While they are at least somewhat pleasing to the eye in color and composition, unlike Jackson Pollack's work, they are not art. They represent nothing but some guy's delusional ceiling-watching, and because of this, inspire nothing.
We'll get back to a few more Joan Miro paintings, some of his other work is more interesting to look at, despite it still being meaningless.
i don't know what you are talking about, all i know that art for me is something which moves in a way that nothing else can. when i saw miro's blue series, i started crying and i knew that instant that i found what i have been searching for a very long time. there are many art works which i don't like, but others just blow me away. like some of the pieces of rothko, or marlene dumas. i hope you will find too something which makes you feel this way.
ReplyDeleteI love miro paintings, the blue series is my favourite. I am really sorry, if this is not touching you, I hope one day it will.
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