If we agree with the thesis that «the art of today aspires to emphasize individuality,» then it is clear that the art of Antoni Miró is a perfect part of such a European concept. Convinced that «the experience of beauty is cosmically universal,» Miró changes from the artist as imitator into the builder of a new world of objectes. It seems that he defines his own artistic poetry by this imperative: a release from all prejudice, then a start of subtle work based on formal facts.

Whether he is occupied with painting, graphic work, sculpture or objects, Miró, as a real Renaissance spirit, always shows the joy discovering, and radicalism, also. Waht truly amazes is his absolute devotion, not only to art, but to a specific way of life and thinking that, again, conditions and determines that specific relation to his own talent and art.

Someone once said that «the cornerstone fo art, and the real beginning of all kinds of work, is based on drawing and colour.» So Miró’s synthetic totalities speak through the drama of lines and colours, creating visually convincing images, no matter what he is describing. Firm, strong, uncompromising drawing, discrete geometry, and graphic construction, on the one hand; colour researching, even the treatment of colour as living organism, on the other, along with informal composite solutions, a pars pro toto method, and complex structures.

Carrying on an open dialogue with traditions, as well as with the contemporary world, Miró’s visual sensations speak, mainly, through expressive and narrative figuration, where characters apperar as associations, idea carriers.

That is why in Miró’s art symbolism has a significant place. Symbol represent «the biding force of the universe», and are concerned with what ia of greatest importance to man-his own life and his own mind. Anyway, this artist considers myth as reality itself.

In fact, Miró puts together his own spiritual and practical experiences, recording the tempo of his own life, its passage in tiem and space. The art of Antoni Miró amazes because it is the fruit of adventure, thye product of fantasies, but still-a big secret.

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