- Dates
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- Place
- Archive of the Fundació Joan Miró
- Curated by
- Teresa Montaner and Elena Escolar
Joan Miró's art would be impossible to understand adequately without the large number of drawings, sketches, notes and preliminary studies that he kept over the years.
Miró was methodical in character and found drawing to be the ideal instrument always to hand that enabled him to preserve his embryonic ideas and to visualise them.
In some cases, his works are faithful transpositions of preparatory drawings, with references to colours, dimensions, the title or the medium. Despite this, the support is not always a conventional sheet of paper. Occasionally, an advertisement prompted irony or a press article provided a context or a setting for figures and signs, evoking how distressing and painful the representation might be. At other times, it is simply a fragment used to record a fleeting mental connection.
The support never pretends to be other than what it is: a ticket, a sheet from a diary or calendar, the back of a typed letter or the flap of an envelope. In such cases, the date written by hand by Miró contradicts the date printed on the page torn from the diary, the typed text showing through demands to be read, and the envelope allows its folds to be glimpsed.
