Joan Miró Woman, Birds
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI © Successió Miró / ADAGP, Paris, 2021
Spanish Catalan artist, Joan Miró, experimented with shapes and colours, and was inspired by the images and texts painted on building surfaces known as Graffiti Art.
The artist was inspired by children’s mark-making, and he used signs and gestures to create a new language of expression.
Miró says, “I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
In this painting, Miró uses pictograms to represent a feeling of freedom.
Can you see a figure in the painting?
What do you think it is, and how does it show freedom?
