A haunting self-portrait of a man watching the world collapse | Joan Miró | UNIQLO ArtSpeaks

Anne Umland, senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, looks at Joan Miró’s "Self-Portrait I" through the lens of our uncertain times, and sees the artist “watching the world as he knew it collapse before his eyes.”
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  • @kareneriksen7440
    @kareneriksen74403 жыл бұрын

    A 2020 mood.

  • @nicolasgauthier9382

    @nicolasgauthier9382

    3 жыл бұрын

    Doom 2020...self portrait like the movie US 2001 + 19 = 2020 for the president coming from a tower of new york...signs of the times

  • @Dyrnwyn
    @Dyrnwyn3 жыл бұрын

    1:23 I was honestly expecting her to say, "Due to the coronavirus..." I hate this year.

  • @haroldellis9721
    @haroldellis97213 жыл бұрын

    Helen Khan, who died last year, age 102, introduced me to Joan Miró’s works, some 30 odd years ago.

  • @judyonzen
    @judyonzen3 жыл бұрын

    i love curators' talks...how wordy of descriptions...as complicated as this master drawing...

  • @deepashtray5605
    @deepashtray56053 жыл бұрын

    The rendering himself transparent part made it click.

  • @joanneweiss3864
    @joanneweiss38643 жыл бұрын

    Love these, I learn so much! I've loved this piece & knew really nothing about it, thank you

  • @richardbarksdale3810
    @richardbarksdale38103 жыл бұрын

    I do see something of a mystery in that painting let me know if I have touched on something. I see a man possibly struggling with his own understanding or interpretation of divine thinking and how he reflects the human mind and celestial spirit to connect as one force. Thank you for sharing your video. God bless you all.

  • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
    @heraldeventsandfilms59703 жыл бұрын

    I was a disciple of his for many years until I finally found a style of my own. A visit to the Foundation on Mallorca is highly-recommended. Miro's work is joyous and just thirty minutes from here, in Edinburgh Scotland, there are two large bronze sculptures of his. I hope to go back to Mallorca some day and would prefer not to return. I wonder if there is a market for Scottish Fauvism there?

  • @maayanmoshe3581
    @maayanmoshe35813 жыл бұрын

    he is one of my favourite artists love the work

  • @rlund651
    @rlund6513 жыл бұрын

    Stunning.

  • @royeastland-drawing5505
    @royeastland-drawing55053 жыл бұрын

    It's a wonderful drawing. It's lovely to see it close up in this video.

  • @KharaokeTube
    @KharaokeTube3 жыл бұрын

    Stellar and haunting.

  • @fermartin3340
    @fermartin33403 жыл бұрын

    In 1937-8 the danger of fascism and the feeling of arriving a war world were evident: this is the fear in the eyes of the selfportrait

  • @Lynne-28
    @Lynne-283 жыл бұрын

    So very very true.

  • @pablozitofontan9428
    @pablozitofontan94283 жыл бұрын

    Great analysis!! Thanks !!

  • @AngelasMixedMediaArtist
    @AngelasMixedMediaArtist3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful texture art

  • @tenniswerewolf8095
    @tenniswerewolf80953 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @antmilklover1241
    @antmilklover12413 жыл бұрын

    Love how she explains this!

  • @shoWbitz
    @shoWbitz Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful artwork

  • @stephaniemedina1848
    @stephaniemedina18483 жыл бұрын

    Excellent I love Miro🐱🌷🌹🌈

  • @anuradhajaishankar7903
    @anuradhajaishankar79033 жыл бұрын

    It seems to sink way deeper than the surface leads you to believe. I have drowned and I don’t think I can swim back to the surface. Captivating.

  • @nancywysemen7196
    @nancywysemen71963 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @nightbluehorse
    @nightbluehorse3 жыл бұрын

    A motionless movement like his said

  • @terezinhanogueira6912
    @terezinhanogueira69123 жыл бұрын

    this is outstanding

  • @edwardsimmonds521
    @edwardsimmonds5213 жыл бұрын

    Now I want to buy a shirt.

  • @LM01234
    @LM012343 жыл бұрын

    We are all transparent because we are more than body

  • @trianglebook3616
    @trianglebook36163 жыл бұрын

    Is it pastels and charcoal?

  • @stephencarroll230
    @stephencarroll2303 жыл бұрын

    You can see how this work influenced Gorky and Matta

  • @albertine2169
    @albertine21693 жыл бұрын

    I've never seen this painting before, so thank you for the introduction. I enjoyed listening to your explanation.

  • @samanthat.4281
    @samanthat.42813 жыл бұрын

    Sort of like us watching 2020 happen

  • @k-dramagoodmorningseoul
    @k-dramagoodmorningseoul3 жыл бұрын

    Hi. How are you? / I heard it in winter in Korea. I hope you stay healthy and do good things together. Thank you. ^O^

  • @gavincoates5560
    @gavincoates55603 жыл бұрын

    I love her thoughts on the drawing

  • @madArt1981
    @madArt19813 жыл бұрын

    The obvious conscription in the nuance neo- modernist expression of contemporary ideals reflected in the organization and juxtaposition of proportional anatomical reference to a conceptual reference blah blah blah. It’s crap. So is every single random blob splat & scrape. Sophistication in the presentation is required in order to justify the $ spent & conserve momentum in the hype to increase value. After all of the coolest/most influential person sez so, I’m gonna do it too. I’m cool too ya know!

  • @fedorcambiazoalvear
    @fedorcambiazoalvear3 жыл бұрын

    o_o

  • @imanalexander8655
    @imanalexander86553 жыл бұрын

    He’s trying to warn us of the impending apocalypse

  • @bluelines1792
    @bluelines17923 жыл бұрын

    It does look like he is facing things. Very unfair.

  • @stephenburrows4250
    @stephenburrows42503 жыл бұрын

    It looks like a virus rendering on the right cheek as well - go figure...! Stay safe everyone... 😷

  • @cpi23
    @cpi233 жыл бұрын

    everyone should be allowed to lick one (1) piece of art, and this one should be yours

  • @MagnusVonBenz
    @MagnusVonBenz3 жыл бұрын

    You can see art. You can see also kitsch. There is no difference.

  • @howtubeable
    @howtubeable3 жыл бұрын

    Absurd interpretation. Miro was not speaking to the year 2020. You can't just talk about your subjective feelings and pretend that's what the artist felt too.