The drawn forms in Miró’s Untitled—a conical, tipped weather vane, planets and comets in orbit, and a flaming horizon line—are schematically rendered yet recognizable. They float amid an abstract landscape of paper- collage circles in rust, brown, tan, and white. Untitled is one of twenty- two large- scale, chromatically austere collages Miró made between July and November 1929. In these works, he kept his drawn lines to a minimum. Miró described his collages as “drawings with new explorations into substance” and as “training exercises, shadowboxing, so as to hit harder and harder, in a tougher and more energetic way.”
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