Miró

I had an opportunity to visit the Tate Modern Miró exhibition last Sunday. As a member, it was no trouble to get in anytime I wished.  I want to say a lot about the assembled collection of sketches and paintings, but to be honest - just like when I visited the Gaugain exhibition at the same venue - the selection was too vast to take in :( in one sitting anyway.

I was impressed with his early works, the paintings "House With Palm Tree" and "Vegetable Garden and Donkey", both painted in 1918 - Miró was already confident to use a stylistic approach in depicting allotment rows and cloud formations that echoed the tilled land (or is that awry perspective containing water courses?)

 "The Rut" executed in the same year courses with energy.

A year later "Mont-roig, the Church and the Village" includes buildings reflecting brilliant sunshine above lush greenery.

By 1921 and exemplified in "The Farm", he used repeated motifs and increased symbolism to fill his canvas.

I was overwhelmed by the time I got to his preparatory pieces for the "Head of the Catalan Peasant" (1925).  Still time to return before it ends, September 11th 2011.