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Miro's Dog Barking At The Moon

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Miro's much work of this period is marked by a reduction of means moving from complexity of Carnival of Harlequin to the magic simplicity of a painting such as Dog Barking at the Moon. Again we find the ladder, for Miro a symbol of transcendence and a bridge to another, unearthly area. Its a underpopulated nocturnal landscape, a dark and forbidden place that resembles a scene from a dream. Near the ladder there is a colorful dog stands on the brown earth, looking at the distorted moon above him. Without bright colours the dark background and the vast emptiness in-between all the objects is producing a feel of mystery and loneliness. While his art was always was inspired from real objects and places , Miro thought of reality as " a point of

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