Dutch Interior Miro

Dutch interior i the museum of modern art new york dutch interior ii peggy guggenheim collection venice and dutch interior iii the metropolitan museum of art new york that were directly influenced by two 17th century works in amsterdam s rijksmuseum.

Dutch interior miro. Miro s dutch interior i shows the very basic form of a man playing a guitar. I had the postcard pinned up on my easel while i painted miró reported. He is the main focus with a dog cat pictures on the wall and a window that the man is leaned up against.

Joan miró dutch interior i 1928. Dutch interior i i s based on a seventeenth century painting by hendrick martensz sorgh depicting a lute player in a domestic interior. The dutch interiors features miró s three dutch interiors and the two old master paintings on which they are based.

October 5 2010 january 17 2011. What s becoming visible is not the physical interior of the dutch resident but the mental the inner world of fears and desires hendrick sorgh the lute player 1661. The dutch interiors are a series of three paintings painted by joan miró in 1928 each inspired by dutch golden age paintings of dutch interiors.

Dutch interior i is a reinterpretation of the lute player by hendrik martenszoon sorgh dutch interior ii is a reinterpretation of children teaching a cat to dance by jan steen and dutch interior iii is a reinterpretation of the young woman at her. Frontispiece color detail notes that miró stopped signing his paintings on the front with the dutch interior pictures instead inscribing his name the title and date on the verso of each canvas see 2010 conservation remarks in archive file. The painting presents an accumulation of seemingly disparate marks scribbles smears and hastily scrawled numbers that suggests graffiti and grit on the ancient walls of the eternal city.

The exhibition brings together three paintings by miró. The man s body is a huge white blob with no definite separation to any body part. Miró bought a postcard reproduction of the work at the rijksmuseum in amsterdam a few months prior to beginning his painting.

New york 2008 pp. It s not without reason that miró has given these works the title dutch interior i ii iii. Dutch interior i was created in 1928 by joan miro in surrealism style.