Bam! That blue, the orange, the green, the red, and the black turning in to… maroon. Almost too much. It happened in Florence, when wandering around without a specific destination that all of a sudden I got hit by a screaming combination of colors. The poster on the wall was promoting Joan Miró exhibition in the nearby Orsamichele museum.
At that time I was used to a much more traditional way of painting, I didn’t know much the artist, and visiting his show was more accepting a challenge than anything else. Now, it could sound a little bit dramatic, but the encounter – long, long time ago – with this masterpiece by Joan Miró, truly changed my perception of art, and influenced in a major way my career.
It seems very spontaneous, created on a whim. Little I knew how much time Miró put in planning his work. And yet, at the end the result is surprisingly fresh. Only later I was able to check some of the sketches he created to plan this painting, some of them on the back of a metro ticket! Which finally gave me the perfect explanation for the purple and green circle at the bottom left of the canvas. I can’t stop smiling.