Title: Carnival of the Harlequin
Artist: Joan Miro
Editor: Scot Borofsky
Size: 26 X 36 5/8" Canvas
In the early 1900’s, artists were making new changes in modern world art pieces. This was the point in time when the first museum opened up, when photography was taking a toll on viewers all over. People were focusing on realism, cubism, impressionism and much more astonishing inventions created on canvases.
In 1924-1925, Joan Miro created the Carnival of the Harlequin, which was one of the most famous Spanish paintings created. There are little animals, unknown creatures, insects, and many other unusual living objects. There are musical instruments including a guitar and an instrument look-alike with legs and arms. This oil canvas has a lot of movement, which enforces the eye to move about in a fast motion to capture each image. There are colors, that mainly of primary colors of blue, red and yellow. A Green Earth-like object along with white and black squirmy snakes are easily focused on due to their color and shape. This canvas suppresses so much movement that it is said to interpret that dreams are lively ones. This canvas is made completely of lines, patterns and shapes; the square window, cones, circles, cubes, triangles, and much more. Lines make up the squiggly “snake” objects, the shapes themselves, the line in the center connecting objects, the thread being played with by the yellow creature, the arrow and much more.
This painting was to bring out a better society that would allow people to believe that there was no more horror left from World War I. This would create a new environment for those traumatized from the terrors.
