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Joan Miro : Dutch Interior
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Joan Miro: Dutch Interior

Dutch Interior
Oil on Canvas
1938, 36 1/8" x 28 3/4"
Museum of Modern Art, New York

     This is one of Miro's most full, rich, complex, and imaginative paintings. A man is playing a guitar at a table in a green room. There is an odd shaped dog, a cat, pictures on the wall, and a window to the street behind him. The colors are bright and gay, the shapes are wild and distorted, as if in motion. One can feel an exuberance coming from the music the guitar. The musician is playing so hard his head is spinning and the table appears to be moving. This is one of Miro's greatest paintings because it expresses in pictorial form something that cannot be described in words. His shapes and forms take on a life of their own, barely touching on plain reality, but describing reality with sound, touch, and more.
   
   
   

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