Miró Inspired Sculptures
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
- Joan Miró
In the midst of Halloween prep crazy, a vision appeared. A stacked, recycled, open-ended sculpture project painted in a tight, bold palette ala Maestro Miró. So I dropped the pumpkins and face paint and dashed off to bring you a new project that is not tied to any season... well, maybe the eternal season that I live and love: GOOD, BOLD ART.
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Materials:
Miró inspired shape printables (see form below)
Recycled odds and ends: plastic pieces, cardboard, paper cups, lids, collage scraps
Cardboard tubes - TP and paper towel length
Glue gun
Acrylic and/or tempera paint (we used red, deep blue green, golden yellow, black, white, navy, pale blue, periwinkle)
Black marker
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Let's explore the inspiration:
Joan Miró was born on April 20, 1893, in Montroig, near Barcelona, Spain. He was born into a creative family of craftsmen so he developed an appreciation for art and invention at a very early age. When Miró was 17 years old he enrolled in business school at the urging of his family. Miró was miserable and ended up getting very sick. He left the business school shortly after he recovered and decided to enroll into an Art Academy in Barcelona. He had his first solo show at the age of 18 and it bombed, but that didn't stop him from pursuing a career as an artist. Miró went off to Paris in search of artistic inspiration and community. He joined up with a group of painters who were painting dream-like images. Miró was part of the first Surrealist art exhibition, held in Paris in 1925.
Miró did not attach himself to one specific art movement. Instead he branched out on his own adopting his signature style of biomorphic forms, geometric shapes, and semi-abstract pieces.
"My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and pin it at once to canvas. Afterward, I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it."
Miró’s artistic career was diverse and innovative. He was constantly exploring and pushing the limits of his process. During his lifetime, he produced 600 sculptures and a rich body of work that included collages, paintings, drawings, ceramics, tapestries, murals, and engravings.
Miró died on December 25, 1983, in Palma, Mallorca.
Miró often used the female form to represent the universe and birds to represent the link with earth. So this statue represents the link between earth and the universe.
