Portrait de Mme. K. - Joan Miró
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A 1924 Surrealist work by Joan Miró, using geometric symbols and biomorphic forms to create an abstract portrait.
Portrait de Mme. K. (1924) is a work from the early period of Joan Miró, created during his transition into the Surrealist movement. The composition rejects traditional portraiture, opting instead for a symbolic arrangement of geometric shapes, lines, and biomorphic forms. Miró employs a muted, earthy background that provides a neutral stage for the scattered elements.
A central, dark, bulbous shape dominates the upper portion, suggesting a head or cranial form. Below this, the artist places a series of thin, precise lines that intersect to form a loose grid. These lines act as a scaffold for smaller, more playful motifs, including a red, organic shape resembling a flower or a stylized heart, and various arrows and circles. The inclusion of these disparate objects creates a sense of visual shorthand, where the identity of the subject is constructed through signs rather than physical likeness.
This piece reflects the influence of the Parisian avant-garde on Miró, particularly his engagement with the automatic drawing techniques favoured by his contemporaries. By stripping away the literal representation of the human figure, Miró invites the viewer to interpret the subject through a personal, subjective lens. The balance between the rigid, straight lines and the fluid, curved forms creates a tension that is characteristic of his work during the mid-1920s. The work is not a static image, but a collection of visual cues that suggest the presence of the sitter through abstraction. The muted colour palette, dominated by browns, ochres, and blacks, ensures that the focus remains on the structural arrangement of the symbols. This print captures the precise, delicate line work and the atmospheric quality of the original oil painting, making it a study in the early development of Miró's iconic visual language.
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- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
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Portrait de Mme. K. - Joan Miró
Artist Biography
Joan Miro
He grew up in Barcelona, the son of a goldsmith and watchmaker. He studied at the Escola de Belles Arts and at Francesc Gali's art school, where Gali made students draw objects by touch, blindfolded, to develop their sense of form. Miro went to Paris in 1920 and fell in with the Surrealists. Andre Breton called him 'the most Surrealist of us all', which was a compliment. Miro's paintings from this period look like dreams transcribed by someone who has never seen a dream depicted before: biomorphic shapes, stars, eyes, birds, and moons floating on flat fields of colour.
The Constellations series, twenty-three small gouaches painted during the Second World War, are his masterwork. He started them in Normandy as the German army advanced, continued in Palma de Mallorca after fleeing, and finished them in Barcelona. Each one is dense with interlocking forms connected by fine black lines, like a musical score or a star chart.
His late work includes monumental ceramics, tapestries, and public sculptures. The Barcelona airport has a floor mosaic. The Joan Miro Foundation on Montjuic, designed by his friend Josep Lluis Sert, opened in 1975. He burned canvases, stabbed them, walked on them. He was eighty-five and still trying to murder painting.
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