Thoughts

Random thoughts on random areas of interest.

Jan 19, 2020
1 min

"Hirondelle amour", by Joan Miró

- “I do not understand what I see.” - “You do not need to understand.”. The first time I saw works by Miró was at the Fundació Joan Miró in Palma de Mallorca, back in 2015. One shouldn’t aim to analyse Miró's works; it makes no sense to associate them with specific socio-political events or specific artistic categories. #Miró was a #surrealist who refused to sign the #Surrealist #Manifesto because he wished to maintain his absolute artistic independence. Miró does not try to

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Feb 13, 2018
1 min

Jackson Pollock: One Number 31

- "My 5-year-old daughter can do this!" - "Not really." In One Number 31, the image is not the #signifier that refers to the #signified. #Pollock experiments with #automation, explores his #subconscious and uses the canvas to express his emotions, #improvising but at the same time maintaining control of the work. The image is not painted; it happened. "New arts need new techniques. The modern artist cannot express this age; the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old f

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Jul 23, 2017
1 min

Pablo Picasso's "Reading" portrait

- "It shouldn't have taken him much time to paint this." - "It took him a life to conceive it and become able to paint it within a few minutes." Picasso once said that it took him around four years to learn how to paint like #Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child. One can say that one does not like #Picasso, or that one does not understand his work; but it makes no sense for one to say that Picasso was lacking technical skills. On the contrary, his early works are a gr

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Feb 5, 2017
2 min

Kazimir Malevich: Black Square

- "I could do that." - "Yes, but you didn't." The lack of refined artistic techniques, does not imply lack of artistic sophistication. To admire the importance of the "Black Square" one should take into consideration Malevich's other works. This #masterpiece can be read as the the final outcome of a series of #deductive interventions, applied on his other works. In his early works, the artist's favourite topic was the rural life; the human figures gradually transformed into #

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