The Constellations series, of which here that “in Love with a Woman”, arises from the need to escape and move away from sad reality. In fact, the painter Joan Miró made it around 1940, just before the Second World War…

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‣ The artist intent is to communicate humanity that has nothing to do with the brutality of what happening on Earth in the meantime. Thus he lets himself be inspired and consoled by Heaven, transposing those ideal values, which he brings back to life on canvas through bright and lively colors…

‣ Miró is considered the most radical of the surrealists. So much that he waged a “battle” against conventional painting in favor of overcoming it by means of new techniques such as collage…

⇒ Date: 1939-1941

⇒ Material: Painted on paper

⇒ Dimensions: 38 x 46 cm

⇒ Site: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcellona