Go See- New York: "Miró: The Dutch Interiors" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 17, 2011
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
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Joan Miró, Dutch Interior I, 1928. Image via The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
Currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is “Miró: The Dutch Interiors,” an exhibition featuring three surrealist works and the two seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings that inspired them. Joan Miró first encountered the domestic scenes of Jan Steen and Hendrick Sorgh when he visited the Rijksmuseum during a 1928 trip to Amsterdam. The impact of these works on the Catalan artist resulted in The Dutch Interiors: a series of three paintings in which Miró re-envisions the Old Master works as abstract compositions, nearly four-hundred years after their original production. The exhibition, which debuted at the Rijksmuseum earlier this year, is the first occasion on which Miró’s reinterpretations of these scenes have been displayed with the works upon which they are based.
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Hendrick Sorgh, The Lute Player, 1660. Image via the Rijksmuseum.
