Miró Universe emphasises the use of signs in Mirós work through a concise and careful selection of paintings and sculptures from his later years, belonging to the fonds of the Fundació Joan Miró. In his work, the night, the woman, the constellations, male and female sexes, the ladder of escape and the bird became expressions of a universe of creation and renewal. This practice gave rise to a singular sign language, which crystallised in the early 1940s and from which he was never to depart. Taking as references prehistoric art, the medieval masters and popular culture, Miró wanted to go beyond the mimetic representation of reality by progressively simplifying forms and leaving only what is essential.

To achieve this goal, he did not hesitate to transgress the academic conventions of painting and, like other artists linked to the Surrealist world, he sought inspiration in primitive artistic manifestations: formally simple, yet loaded with sacred connotations. Miró considered art an intrinsic part of life, with magical attributes that had to be recovered.

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