Iconography

Throughout the history of art, individual artists have forged imagery and symbolism into distinct visual languages. Miró devised a repertoire of signs that were flexible enough to serve his expressive needs at various points in his career. Beginning in the 1920s, he created visual approximations of elements in the conscious and unconscious realms. His symbols suggest man, woman, and child, as well as aspects of nature and the cosmos. Sometimes they are easily identifiable and at other times they simply suggest a mood.
 
 
   
   
 
 
     

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