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| Peinture (Etoile Bleue) |
"Peinture (Etoile Bleue) is one of the most important paintings of a very important artist in influencing the direction of modern art.
Helena Newman, head of Sotheby's impressionist and modern department say that Etoile Bleue "effortlessly bridging the transition between figurative and abstract art. His works from this period are supremely modern, timeless and of great universal appeal,"
By the 1920s, Miro had begun to move from strictly representational work to explore the subjects of imagination and dreams, thus works such as this mark a stylistic change from his early career.
The symbols in this painting are repeated and modified in later works.
Miró worked with strategies such as automatic drawing (where the hand is allowed to move freely as an extension of the unconscious), Surrealism (which philosophically strove to reveal authentic thought through juxtaposing unexpected symbols and forms), Expressionism (which applies emotional subjectivity to evoke moods or ideas), and Color Field Painting (that meditated on combinations, and or fields of color symbology).
As for an interpretation of Miro's Etoile Bleue the painting provides just enough information to stimulate the process of interpretation, but the same stimulation resists conclusions and continues to evoke questions.
Through the interpretive resistance of Miró’s artwork we are better able to witness our own processes of interpretation for what they are, reflections and projections of who we are—internally and as a community. And what we find is that who we are is just as unresolved as the image that we meditate upon.
Helena Newman, head of Sotheby's impressionist and modern department say that Etoile Bleue "effortlessly bridging the transition between figurative and abstract art. His works from this period are supremely modern, timeless and of great universal appeal,"
By the 1920s, Miro had begun to move from strictly representational work to explore the subjects of imagination and dreams, thus works such as this mark a stylistic change from his early career.
The symbols in this painting are repeated and modified in later works.
Miró worked with strategies such as automatic drawing (where the hand is allowed to move freely as an extension of the unconscious), Surrealism (which philosophically strove to reveal authentic thought through juxtaposing unexpected symbols and forms), Expressionism (which applies emotional subjectivity to evoke moods or ideas), and Color Field Painting (that meditated on combinations, and or fields of color symbology).
As for an interpretation of Miro's Etoile Bleue the painting provides just enough information to stimulate the process of interpretation, but the same stimulation resists conclusions and continues to evoke questions.
Through the interpretive resistance of Miró’s artwork we are better able to witness our own processes of interpretation for what they are, reflections and projections of who we are—internally and as a community. And what we find is that who we are is just as unresolved as the image that we meditate upon.
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