{"id":8157,"date":"2013-03-20T06:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:25:22","slug":"featured-joan-miro-lithographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-joan-miro-lithographies\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: JOAN MIRO LITHOGRAPHIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Joan Mir\u00f3 was among the first artists to develop automatic drawing as a way to undo previous established techniques, and with Andre Masson represented the beginning of Surrealism as an art movement. <\/span>However, Mir\u00f3 chose not to become an official member of the Surrealists in order to be free to experiment with other artistic styles.\u00a0 He pursued his own interests in the art world, ranging from surrealism, to expressionism and color field painting.\u00a0 His works drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy, are some of the most original of the 20th century. Mir\u00f3 was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona.\u00a0 He studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the Academia Gal\u00ed. He moved to Paris in 1920, where, under the influence of surrealist poets and writers, he evolved his mature style. The forms of his lithographs are organized against flat neutral backgrounds and are painted in a limited range of bright colors, especially blue, red, yellow, green, and black. Amorphous amoebic shapes alternate with sharply drawn lines, spots, and curlicues, all positioned with seeming nonchalance. Mir\u00f3 later produced highly generalized, ethereal works in which his organic forms and figures are reduced to abstract spots, lines, and bursts of colors.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Description-heading\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description: <\/strong>Hard bound with dust jacket. First printing of the French edition with <em><span class=\"first3words\">11 ORIGINAL FULL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS<\/span><\/em>, including 5 double page printed by Mourlot, Paris. 233 pages. Text in French. Cream cloth boards with title in black on spine edge. <em><span class=\"first3words\">FOLD OUT LITHOGRAPH DUST JACKET<\/span><\/em> in protective Brodart cover. RARE!.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory # <\/strong>20795<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Joan Miro Lithographies<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Leiris, Michel\u00a0 &amp;\u00a0 Mourlot, Fernand<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> A. C. Mazo<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 1972<br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> Hard Bound<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition: <\/strong>Near Fine<strong><br \/>\nDust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Near Fine<br \/>\n<strong>Edition:<\/strong> First Edition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Mir\u00f3 was among the first artists to develop automatic drawing as a way to undo previous established techniques, and with Andre Masson represented the beginning of Surrealism as an art movement. However, Mir\u00f3 chose not to become an official member of the Surrealists in order to be free to experiment with other artistic styles.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8157"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14958,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions\/14958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}