by Catherine Prats-Okuyama, Kimihito Okuyama, Joan Miró · Centre Pompidou · tapa dura · ISBN 9782858505470
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«Bleu II» is the illustrated children's album by Catherine Prats-Okuyama, Kimihito Okuyama and Joan Miró, published by Centre Pompidou in hardback (34 pages, in French).
The book belongs to the L'Art en jeu series, designed to introduce twentieth-century art to children. Based on Joan Miró's painting Bleu II, it combines images, questions and games to discover the work, which Miró himself described as the colour of his dreams.
Recommended for children aged 6 to 8 and for young readers beginning their journey into modern art.
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma, Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
