Exhibition: Miró-Matisse: beyond images

Joan Miró was born 24 years after Henri Matisse. The time gap would suggest that these two key artists of the twentieth century would not have much to do with each other. The temporary exhibition of the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona proves that this is clearly not the case, focusing on the “deep, long-lasting and constructive relationships between the two artists”, with the culmination of a final “confrontation” between famous works of the two geniuses.

After putting Miró and Picasso face-to-face in the previous exhibition, the Foundation that protects the legacy of Miró now compares him with the French Matisse, one of the fathers of Fauvism, a pictorial movement that tried to express emotions by emphasising the use of color. There was also no lack of chromatic exaltation in the works of the Catalan artist Miró, who was more associated with surrealism but who, like Matisse, produced work that broke with everything classical.In this renovating background lies the first thing in which Miró and Matisse resemble each other. Not only did they admire each other, but they also met and had a creative impact on each other from two cardinal points of the same creative universe, meaning that their respective careers acquired new and interesting nuances. Proof of this can be admired in this exhibition.