Beauty In The Eyes

Not a fan, tbh.

I was intrigued by his art, I came to know of him by chance. I used to frequent the goodwill stores and other places where people used to donate their art to and I came across a painting similar to the one you have displayed here and I purchased it not knowing what I purchased though.

In search of who the painting might have been done by I came across Miro, I eventually tried to get the painting authenticated but was not able to have it attributed officially as a Miro. I ended up selling the painting anyway for a nice sum anyway.

Carlton,

I am a fan.

I had to do this. I have never been happy with it. Matisse made cutouts from paper at the end of his life in a hospital bed. This takes from both artists.

Carlton, I'm a fan and consider myself a modern day fauvist.

Here is an example of one of many of my own fauvist inspired works (not to be competitive with my friend David Bridburg!) But here it is and one of many inspired by the movement:

Picture a time before AbEx and Pollock. Leading edge artists were just beginning to explore abstraction. Some of them made interesting worlds onto themselves. Joan Miro was among the very best at saturating his body of work with interesting ideas.

adding the artist here who does the most of that is Ronald Walker. His abstract world mixes a new approach to figurative beings with its own orbit. There is no neat easy fit to categorize his work.

I like that work David

Nice picture too Lisa

Carlton,

Thanks for the compliment.

I'm with Abbie - not a fan at first glance. However, I do like to read artist's descriptions of their surrealist / abstract work to see what sort of thoughts they were thinking or what idea they were trying to portray. While I appreciate color and form, I'm just not knowledgeable enough to understand or appreciate all the symbolism that goes into these types of works.

That's what I love art. Each of us has what they like and dislike. Maybe to some extent that defines us as artists.

''Beauty In The Eyes'' maybe yes and maybe no. So for instance in the case of Leonardo; it was objective, universal and more precisely mathematical defined. Raphael on the other hand ....... .

For me, a Miro work is so iconic. Both Miro and Kandinsky (did I spell it right.) filled a major space within art history.

I find Miro’s work charming and fascinating.