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Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Jacques Dupin, dated Paris, 30 novembre 88.
"Art doesn't exist for the Surrealists. What they understand by art is anti-art. In politics they espouse Bolshevism as the way to destroy present day social ideals... I personally don't know where we are heading. The only thing that's clear to me is that I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have an utter contempt for painting. The only thing that interests me is the spirit itself, and I only use the customary artist's tools - brushes, canvas, paints in order to get the best effects. The only reason I abide by the rules of pictorial art is because they're essential for expressing what I feel just as grammar is essential for expressing yourself. I'm interested in anonymous art, the kind that springs from the collective unconscious. I paint the way I walk along the street. I pick up a pearl or a crust of bread and that's what I give back, what I collect. When I stand in front of a canvas, I never know what I am going to do, and nobody is more surprised than I at what comes out" (Miró, in conversation with F. Melgar, 'Spanish Artists in Paris', in Ahora, Madrid, 24 January 1931).
"Art doesn't exist for the Surrealists. What they understand by art is anti-art. In politics they espouse Bolshevism as the way to destroy present day social ideals... I personally don't know where we are heading. The only thing that's clear to me is that I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have an utter contempt for painting. The only thing that interests me is the spirit itself, and I only use the customary artist's tools - brushes, canvas, paints in order to get the best effects. The only reason I abide by the rules of pictorial art is because they're essential for expressing what I feel just as grammar is essential for expressing yourself. I'm interested in anonymous art, the kind that springs from the collective unconscious. I paint the way I walk along the street. I pick up a pearl or a crust of bread and that's what I give back, what I collect. When I stand in front of a canvas, I never know what I am going to do, and nobody is more surprised than I at what comes out" (Miró, in conversation with F. Melgar, 'Spanish Artists in Paris', in Ahora, Madrid, 24 January 1931).