What kind of painter is Milo?

Milo thinks his hometown Catalonia is the most beautiful place in the world. What really fascinates him is not Barcelona's antique market and bustling Mediterranean commercial port, although he grew up here. He always thought that the vast Yuan Ye in Catalonia was a fascinating place for him. His grandparents have lived there for generations. When he was a teenager, he often went to his grandfather's house in the country. /kloc-When he was 0/8 years old, he lived in a farm called Monteroy for a long time because of a serious illness. He found an unforgettable charm on that desolate mountain. The rolling hills are densely covered with olive trees and vineyards. On the other side of the mountain, there is the sound of waves. People hewed out a house on the rough rock, and with the gothic spire, it became a unique small church. At night, the air in the countryside is so transparent that the stars seem to sing on the spire of the chapel. This kind of scenery is full of mysterious colors in the eyes of a weak teenager. Miro's ancestors were all traditional craftsmen. In his view, the pattern on the gold and silver vessels is a symbol of rural scenery in Catalonia, which contains endless legends and myths. www.findart.com.cn

When Milo began to receive art education, the mysterious Catalonia still lingered in his mind, and his academic education almost killed his ideal of becoming an artist. He regards art as a world full of fantasy, a place where the soul can sing freely, and a place where the traumatized spirit in life can be comforted. This young man with quiet appearance and warm heart finally bid farewell to the narrow and conservative Barcelona and came to Paris, the center of European culture, to find his own artistic dream.

The dazzling Paris excited Milo, who paid great attention to the avant-garde art movement at that time with great enthusiasm. From his works when he first arrived in Paris, we can see the influence of Fauvism and Cubism, especially the color of Fauvism laid a good foundation for him. No matter what artistic stage Milo was in later, the bright, loud and clear color relationship was always one of his artistic motivity. However, Miro is not satisfied with pure visual relationship. He doesn't think art is just a form. It should be as full of memories, associations and imagination as poetry, and reveal the inner mystery to people with images in silence, just like he was in the mountain village of Montreux, facing the ancient chapel, meditating under the starlight in the quiet night. At this time, a new school of thought was forming, and its thoughts quickly attracted Miro, and finally Miro's free-floating thoughts and imagination found a home. This school is surreal. Surrealism has a strong sense of social criticism. Poets and artists gathered under this banner are based on Freud's thoughts and fight against what they think is bourgeois civilization. They claim that because all attempts to analyze and grasp reality through reason have failed, the subconscious will have to replace reason. Miro comes from rural Catalonia and is not interested in social and political issues. He felt the position of poetry in art from surrealism theory. It is this kind of poetry that can freely express inner secrets with images and symbols. The subconscious is hidden deep in the soul. When poetry gushes out from the soul, the deepest and forgotten memories emerge with the association of poetry. For Miro, this memory is Yuan Ye, the mountains, farmhouses and olive trees in Catalonia. These are not concrete images, but more like abstract symbols reflecting Miro's inner call. www.findart.com.cn

Surrealism emphasizes the picture effect and significance of dreams, associations and symbols. Miro's early works, such as Ploughed Farmland (1923-24), directly take the life of childhood as the source of imagination, just like a world trying to keep in memory. It only appears in dreams or flashes through his mind. It stays in memory, but it is changeable. The scenery on the picture is irregularly arranged. The strange animal has one eye hidden in the bush, but its ears grow on the trunk. Rows of black lines clearly represent plowed farmland. Miro believes that this is pure nature, but it does not come from objective truth, but from the absurd yearning for nature. The clown's carnival (1924-25) is more like pure imagination, and it begins to break away from the direct memory of early life. When he painted this picture, he didn't smear it aimlessly, but drew a lot of drafts, from which he captured the ideas that flashed unconsciously, and then carefully designed these ideas on the screen, as if they were the impression left by a child after watching the circus performance, full of childishness and humor. In fact, what Milo wants to capture is a childhood memory that flashes in an adult's mind. Among all surrealist painters, Miro is the most faithful to his unconscious feelings, and he himself thinks that the clown's carnival transcends reality in the field of poetry. www.findart.com.cn

Miro's later art basically followed the path of poetry and natural images. During the Second World War, he fled the war and came to a remote mountain village again, and continued to reserve a pure land for art in a state of anxiety and depression. Those poetic ideas and symbolic dreams still reflect his dedication to art, such as Song of the Nightingale in the Late Night and Rain in the Early Morning (1940) and Beautiful Birds for Couples to Enlighten the Future (1940). The pictures seem to be just beautiful colors and abstract color blocks, but if you carefully identify them, you will soon see natural images: the moon and the moon. Miro always repeats these symbols in many paintings, but it gives people a brand-new impression, because these symbols are not abstract concepts, but come from his memory and feelings about nature. After inspiration and poetic purification, they brought the audience into his dream. www.findart.com.cn

After the war, Milo has become a great international artist, and his paintings are becoming more and more simple. Whether it is murals designed for large buildings or easel paintings, there are only a few large solid colors, plus symbolic dots and lines. This seems to be a purely abstract painting, and the scenery of Catalonia is no longer visible. For example, Blue 3 only has a red dot and a black dot, and a winding line slowly passes through the picture. Blue is so pure.