Keywords: illustration cartoon indoor Joan Miró (Spanish, Barcelona 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca) Date: 1928 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/8 x 38 1/8 in. (129.9 x 96.8 cm) In 1928 Miró painted a series of three paintings inspired by postcards of seventeenth-century Dutch genre scenes that he collected during a two-week trip to Holland. In this painting, he discarded the heightened naturalism and precision of these models in favor of dreamlike distortion. He used artistic shorthand to render the central figure-an archer-yet one can easily detect the arrows and avian targets. Photo taken at The Met, March 2016. Joan Miró (Spanish, Barcelona 1893–1983 Palma de Mallorca) Date: 1928 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/8 x 38 1/8 in. (129.9 x 96.8 cm) In 1928 Miró painted a series of three paintings inspired by postcards of seventeenth-century Dutch genre scenes that he collected during a two-week trip to Holland. In this painting, he discarded the heightened naturalism and precision of these models in favor of dreamlike distortion. He used artistic shorthand to render the central figure-an archer-yet one can easily detect the arrows and avian targets. Photo taken at The Met, March 2016. |