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Joan Miró, Shooting star and heads, 1935

SKU:  195417

Joan Miró, Shooting star and heads, 1935

€58,31 EUR
€58,31 EUR
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Shooting Star and Heads reflects a period of growing psychological intensity in Joan Miró’s career. Created in 1935, the painting emerged during a time of political instability in Spain, just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. While Miró often maintained a playful visual language, works from the mid-1930s frequently reveal darker undertones, tension, and emotional unease.

The composition features floating heads, biomorphic forms, and a dynamic star-like element that appears to streak across the picture plane. The “shooting star” may symbolize movement, cosmic energy, or sudden transformation, while the fragmented heads suggest human presence filtered through dreams and subconscious imagery. Miró avoids realism entirely, reducing faces and bodies to simplified symbols, curved lines, and abstract forms that hover in ambiguous space.

Bold areas of color—often red, blue, yellow, black, and green—interact with thin black lines that move across the surface like spontaneous drawings. These lines create rhythm and connect various elements while preserving a sense of openness. Miró’s compositions often appear playful at first glance, yet the disjointed figures and floating symbols can also feel unstable or emotionally charged.

The painting demonstrates Miró’s deep engagement with Surrealism, particularly its interest in dreams, automatic expression, and irrational imagery. However, his work remained uniquely lyrical and poetic rather than overtly psychological.

Shooting Star and Heads captures a moment when Miró balanced whimsy with growing tension. The painting feels cosmic and imaginative, yet beneath its playful surface lies an awareness of uncertainty that reflected both personal creativity and the troubled political climate of Europe in the 1930s.

Materials

Cotton canvas, matte photo paper, fine art paper, pigmented inks.

  • The canvas it's 99 % cotton, 450 gr/sqm;
  • The matte photo paper it's acid-free (archival paper), 190 gr/sqm;
  • The fine art photo paper it's satinated (semi-glossy), 140 gr/sqm.

Shipping & Returns

Dispatching time: 1-2 days.

* Standard shipping fee: The orders will be sent by priority registered mail, usually via client National Post (USPS, Canada Post, Royal Mail, LaPoste, Deutsche Post, PostNL, etc). The delivery times are not guaranteed, sometimes it will take longer and these are beyond our control. Tracking number will be provided. Clients from US and Canada cannot track the parcels as the tracking numbers are not rolled in USPS and Canada Post systems.

* UPS standard: The orders will be sent with UPS expedited option. The delivery time it's between 5-11 days. Tracking number will be provided after dispatch.

* UPS express: The orders will be sent with UPS express saver. The delivery time it's between 4-7 days. Tracking number will be provided after dispatch.

Framing tips

Both type of materials, paper and canvas prints come rolled and will be need to be taken to your local framers.

The image it's printed with a border of 0.6 " (1.5 cm), for framing purposes only.

If you have already a frame, be sure you send us the exact size of the print that will fit inside the frame. We're printing on vectorial plotters so the size could slightly be more or less with 0.4" (1 cm).

If you plan to have the canvas print stretched on wooden frame, you'll need additional border, so please let us know after placing the order.

The images above was cropped from the image at the biggest size available (keeping the best quality and aspect /ratio), so, for good details please choose biggest dimensions that will suit your preferences / space.

Care Instructions

The print media (canvas or photo paper) could be cleaned only with a dry, soft cloth.

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