Miró Museum
1/17/21 People have different ways to miss travels. I heard that the round tickets from the same airport are sold out very fast last year 🙂 I started playing a traveling board game, called Tokaido. You can do shopping, stay in hotel, eat tasty Japanese meals, go site-seeing and hot springs. Oh, you also can visit temples and donate money 🙂
The other day, I was discussing with a friend whether romantic and emotional means equivalent when talking about a piece of art. This is certainly drawn to me. Another related trait of an art work is freedom and personalization. For example, paintings and drawing can be very subjective and the authors can have a lot of controls.
Jean Miró is another my favorite Spanish painter, besides Picasso. A while ago, I visited his NYC exhibition and are surprised to see the connection of his work with poems. Coming to Barcelona, I am so excited to see the entire museum of his work! It is located in a scenic area of Barcelona, here is the entrance:
The museum is on top of a hill (see the view on the left) and you will walk through a very beautiful residential area of Barcelona (see on the right).
The museum is not very busy. I did not buy an online ticket and still was able to get in immediately.
It is just good looking and harmonic. The title of this picture is called “the poem”. The text introduces “the pictorial space becomes a metaphor for the blank page on which the painter’s words appears: loose lines, visual signs like the abbreviation of a possible text”.
This one is gold and futuristic looking. I have this impression of “carnival in the dessert”. Animals are dancing and socializing like people. See they are all standing up??
What we see here is simple and symbolic. The brush looking stroke hints the Asian connection. The picture and its description together embodies the artistic effect. “After a first visit to Japan in 1966, Miro described himself as deeply in harmony with the Japanese soul. Some titles evoke the poetic brevity of haikus, and the highly restrained paintings of translating their statements into a small number of visual elements.”
These two remind me of some kind of landscape?! The left has a sun, some cloud, the wind and some sort of an alien. They reminded me of all the colorful landscapes I have seen: the reddest land I remembered is on top of the Haleakalā National Park, and maybe also grand canyon? The canola flower field is the largest yellow I have grown up with. The lava field in big islands is black, the Shenandoah mountains have endless greens in summer …
This one almost looks like Chinese characters. He also did sculptures of similar styles, colorful, weird and childish looking. They are displayed on the roof of the museum.
This one is a “King”?! It is displayed on top of the mountain and faces the entire city, adding the power of this sculture. The sculpture and the view support each other to make a piece of art.
There are also pieces with which I have no clues??? It looks like it attracts quite a few people though …
