Miro Critique

Miro

Femme

1981

Bronze

The sculpture I have chosen to critique and analyse is be Joan Miro’s, Femme. This small sculpture is seen in the indoor museum in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I have chosen this because it immediately drew more attention to me. I was highly fascinated by Miro’s inspiration in alien's and how he uses shapes and lines  in order to make his work abstract and at the same time easy to see a face and figure forming. This can be seen like a portrait as the appearance is clear to see, unlike a lot of Miro’s work. This work of art is one of Miro’s sculpturs in which he has worked on in inspiration in aliens. He has made many others like this which happen to be more abstract, making this more unique and heading to realism, an ism Miro is not specialised in. This infact, is a follow up of Miro’s sculpture Personnage  which is also seen in Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the outdoor gardens. The shapes used in this are simple but formed in a way to express an alien’s shape,form and proportion. The head is enlarged and the eyes and mouth are formed in a  dull-like manner making us judge the alien and if it has it’s own mind, thoughts and feelings. From this and the scale, I see the sculpture to be child like. A young character who has deep and hidden emotion. Another focal point to me was the see deep black hole right in the centre where the heart is showing depth. This is considering the alien either has no heart or is feeling empty and lost, with a mysertious and dark personallity. There is textural, squiggly lines surrounding it showing movement and a sign of mixed feelings. This is also seen surrounding the eyebrow and mouth which are attached as one. Each part of its body is shaped in a different way to what we might expect an alien’s body to be as we only think of one face and body to an alien, when in reality, we never know what to expect. It is formed in an unusual way as there is a nose missing , ears and fingers. Used in a way to make it look like a natural propotion and appearance. There is a great number of colours shown in a great use of shading. Going from cherpy greens and yellows to dark morbid colours. Expressing many emotions. It’s suprising yet beautiful to see a bronze material used in a sculpture with a number of different colours collaborating a sculpture and painting as one and making the art work more eye catching.  Although Miro naturally works from his paintings, most others are seen to be different than this as he has used bold colours with a thick black outlining where as this however is extremelly detailed. Miro has put a great amount of thought into this making the audience think into depth immediately wanting to judge it, question it and analyse it.