Before I went into the exhibition I didnt find Miro's paintings particularly engaging, but seeing them in real life I began to appreciate his vibrant use of colour as well as the ideas behind his work and practice. The exhibition ran chronologically, presenting the political and social changes happening at the time alongside the work showing the developments and changes in his work.
The painting that stood out most to me was 'Still Life with Old Shoe', pictured above, and I kept returning to it while walking through the galleries. It's a very disconcerting painting which I think is why I found it intriguing, and slightly hypnotic. The colours are extreme and nausious and fight against the masses of black that start to swamp the negative spaces giving a feeling of claustrophobia. There is sense of alienation from normality, even from the ordinariness of everyday objects. It works well as an unnerving reflection of the uncertain and violent political climate during the Spanish Civil War.
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I also like his series titled 'constellations'. The varying colours in the background and the geometric shapes and lines that appear as primitive symbols were strangely beautiful when together in real life, and is more typical of the majority of his art. I was unsure if there was any meaning behind the series. They were made during the second world war and you can still sense a nightmarish uncertainty especially with the recurring motif of circles staring out at you like unblinking eyes.
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