Joan Miro and Dutch Interior

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Dutch Interior

by Mark Santangelo

Joan Miro created a surrealist painting, a style that expresses the

subconscious using imagery in the subject matter, Dutch Interior shows a man

playing the guitar at a table. There are animals and a women sitting around

him listening to the beautiful sound.

Miro used a wide array of colors especially green and white to

emphasize a happy day. He uses complementary colors to allow the colors to

clash and have things stand out and be unified from the rest of the canvas.

Joan Miro created this painting by observing another painting called The Lute

Player. He painted, distorted, simplified and abstracted it by drawing only

what he thought was important of the object and using the colors he thought

best represented the figure. Miro feels that it is not important to show every

little detail because doing that gives your imagination no room to imagine. To

him abstracting his images is the best way for him to express his inner

feelings. In this painting the Dutch Interior he feels the most important thing

is the fact that a man is playing a guitar and so he paints that. He does not

think the painting was painted to show the mans velvet hat so he leaves that

out. Miro puts a happy warm feeling into his work by painting soft but

brilliant colors onto his canvas. He puts soft whites into his painting to

emphasize that warm mood of joy. Miro uses the color white also to show

important areas of the canvas.

Miro also uses some principles of design to try to give this feeling. He

uses movement to lead your eye around starting from the man playing the

guitar and ending in the lower left hand corner at the place where the dog is

sitting. The central focus is the man playing the guitar because he is what the

whole painting is basically about. One other important principle of design he

uses is asymmetrical balance. There are the same amount of things happening

on both sides of the musician. On