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Carnival of Harlequin - Joan Miro

Joan Miró.
Harlequin's Carnival, 1924-25
Oil on canvas, 66 x 93 cm .
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

The celebrated painting, The Carnival of Harlequin (in English El Carnaval of Arlequín), is a masterpiece of the famous English painter, sculptor and ceramist Joan Miro (Barcelona, \u200b\u200bApril 20, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, December 25, 1983).

The picture is of 1924-25 and has been painted in France, in Paris when the artist had already acceded to the surrealism.

This picture was composed before he wrote the Breton "Surrealist Manifesto" and was Interpretation as a "clarification of the human subconscious" already applies the surrealist technique of 'psychic automatism ie transferred automatically, without the mediation of reason, in the forms of art, images and associations that flow freely from the unconscious. The process involves then be carried away by the forces of the unconscious, free from mind control. Since
beautifully unconventional, the "Carnival of Harlequin" has often attracted criticism from art experts for the failure to conform to the usual artistic eloquence.
Carnival of Harlequin is considered a masterpiece of the surrealist movement that exemplifies, better than other works, the objectives and goals that this current proposal has been painting since the time of its foundation.

Carnival show in "Harlequin's Carnival" is a merry making festival, a time of revelry in the Christian calendar that ends on the day before Ash Wednesday. The work is presented as a vision , a great show made up of strange objects, fantastic toys, devils, goblins and strange creatures tell: objects and symbols that float in space just mentioned in a painting primitive and childish.
Miro free his imagination creates a surreal reality and unconscious, a world parallel to ours, consisting objects and metaphysical dream.

In 1938, recalling this work makes it clear those who are its main features, which can be found in other paintings: the scale indicates the escape and evasion from the world, the animals are the ones he loved and which always surrounds the cat is the one that was always at his side when he painted, the black ball on the right of the painting symbolizes the globe and the black triangle that appears at the window evokes la Tour Eiffel.
I l cavolfiore , scrive ancora Mirò, ha una vita segreta ed era quello che gli interessava, non il suo aspetto.
Mirò dava grande valore alla pittura infantile in quanto riteneva che i bambini attraverso l'uso della fantasia, risucissero più liberamente e con meno filtri ad avvicinarsi al mondo delle fiabe e delle favole.
Mirò sostiene che il pittore è sempre parte delle cose reali della natura, e le plasma non così come sono, ma come lui li vede; le sottopone ad un processo di metamorfosi che le porterà a creare un linguaggio di segni, che è tale perchè universalmente conosciuto.

Fonte: joan-mirò