{"id":2083,"date":"2017-10-03T09:18:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T09:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.contrado.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T12:56:17","slug":"whats-behind-name-insight-joan-miros-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrado.co.uk\/blog\/whats-behind-name-insight-joan-miros-textiles\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Behind a Name? Insight into Joan Mir\u00f3\u2019s Textiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At Contrado we love combining art and design with fashion and textiles to produce unique products, created through our processes of digital printing, sewing and embroidering. Together with our talented artists we bring creativity and design work to traditional fabrics and textiles, making new and exciting pieces through our use of materials. Artist Joan Mir\u00f3 similarly sought to merge the mediums of these two notions through his artwork in the latter years of his life. He began creating tapestry work that combined his traditional painting with woven textiles and challenged our perception of him as a creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joan Mir\u00f3 was a renowned Spanish artist born in Barcelona in 1893. He became famous as an influential painter, sculptor, and ceramicist during his life, and was acknowledged as an artist of the first rank who played an important role in the imaginative life of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the first artists to represent Surrealism as a movement, Joan Mir\u00f3 combined abstract art with surrealist fantasy. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975. A large piece which is displayed in this museum is a unique tapestry, \u2018Tapestry of the Fundacio\u2019 which depicts Mir\u00f3\u2019s classic painting style, yet is crafted entirely from wool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was only in 1972 that Mir\u00f3 produced his first textile pieces in collaboration with Josep Royo, aiming to explore the boundaries between mediums. Inspired by Catalan \u2018sobreteixims\u2019 i.e. heavy, decorative double-woven cloth, he enhanced the variety of these imaginative creations of his home land even further. \u2018Sobreteixims\u2019 were somewhere between collage, painting and tapestry \u2013 they depicted his paintings, yet were made of wool and fabrics. Miro had made the choice to reject the constraints of classic painting, transferring his visions to a medium with its own specific connotations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s well known that the artist always had an interest in unusual materials which allowed him to break away from expectations, playing with the inter-relationships of materials throughout his work. Miro\u2019s interest in folk art and culture lead to his discovery of the creative potential of textiles. Textiles seem to have granted the artist with a long-searched need for physical contact with the materials, and a penchant for simple things and craftmanship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sobreteixim with eight umbrellas, 1973<\/em> shows an extremely large tapestry taking up an entire wall, with eight umbrellas attached. This tapestry is conceived as a painting. The charm if it is that of the painting to which is added that of the new material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From here, Mir\u00f3\u2019s works only developed and became less conventional, with the introduction of various textures, everyday objects, and of course paint, creating what could be interpreted as cyclical works. Miro\u2019s use of colour and form in a playful and symbolic manner resulted in intricate compositions, even in the more rustic textile works. His application of marks and colour had a profound impact on the Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism movements for years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Tapestry of the Fundaci\u00f3, 1979 <\/em>(on the right),<\/em> is a colossal example that also raises the issues of the work\u2019s integration into the architectural space. Miro aspired to something very essential within the thinking of contemporary art, which valued what had previously been considered primitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Explore Art with Textiles with Contrado<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As an art printing service, we not only embrace the combining of artistic mediums, but the playful quality of Miro\u2019s works \u2013 encouraging it not only in creating works ourselves<\/strong>, but in everyday life. Explore the merging of art with fashion and textiles in our online shop, and design your own artwork to be adorned on over 400 fabrics, clothing or accessories.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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At Contrado we love combining art and design with fashion and textiles to produce unique products, created through our processes of digital printing, sewing and embroidering. Together with our talented artists we bring creativity and design work to traditional fabrics and textiles, making new and exciting pieces through our use of materials. Artist Joan Mir\u00f3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Joan Mir\u00f3 was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist. Why did he play an important role in the imaginative life of the 20th century?"},"categories":[778,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat\u2019s Behind a Name? Insight into Joan Mir\u00f3\u2019s Textiles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joan Mir\u00f3 was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist. 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