Londoners, or anyone willing to travel to see some brilliant 20th century dog art, there are only five more days to see Tate Modern’s retrospective Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape.
According to Jackie Wullschlager’s review in the Financial Times, The Farm (above) in the first room of the exhibition sets the tone for a show that celebrates Miró’s romanticism. Hemingway, who owned the masterpiece, claimed “the picture’s hallucinatory quality was the result of young Miró nearly starving to death as he laboured to complete it over nine months in 1921-22 in Paris.” Miró called it “[the] résumé of my entire life in the country.”,
The next dog-centric piece, The Tilled Field, 1923-1924, presents a leap to a new, more surrealistic style just one year later. Note, the dog is almost in the exact same spot of the composition…
The exhibition’s title Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape comes from the 1926 piece Dog Barking at the Moon…
The exhibition’s last day is Sunday, September 11, 2011. Then it will go to Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, October 13-March 25 2012 and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, May 6-August 12 2012.
If you catch it and see any more dogs, please let me know.