The work looks like a line drawing, a far cry from the traditional lithographs of the previous artists who frequented the medium like Eugene Delacroix and ThГ©odore GГ©ricault. One of his most famous lithographs is Grande MaternitГ© (Grand Maternity), 1963, a portrait of a mother breastfeeding a young child. He worked in this medium for over two decades and used it to explore many concepts, from daily life objects, such as a bowl of fruit, a teacup or a young child, to more complex compositions and portraiture. Picasso Lithographs opened up a new door in PicassoвЂ™s career. But Picasso not only succeeded in creating his desired prints but he excelled in these new techniques. He wanted to print in ways that had never been done before, and the printmakers doubted what he was trying to do was even possible. 'He looked, he listened, he did the opposite of what he had learnt- and it worked,' Mourlot, the famous publisher and printer, once said of Picasso's lithograph knowledge. With unconventional methods like finger painting, using bright colors, and creating plates from collage and mixed media, Picasso confused and frustrated the master printmakers in MourlotвЂ™s atelier. During this time, Picasso lithographs were experimented in ways the medium had never seen before. Picasso worked with Mourlot Studios over several months to create over 400 lithographic prints between 19.

Pablo Picasso Faune aux Branchages (Faun with Branches), 1948 Picasso mastered this technique quickly and subsequently began to push the boundaries of the medium itself. The stone is then moistened and an oil-based ink applied, therefore allowing only the drawn on greased design to pick up the ink and print it on the print material. Then the stone is treated with an acid and gum arabic solution, which вЂњetchesвЂќ the non-greased part of the design into the stone itself. Lithography is a printing technique that originally consisted of the artist drawing their design on a lithographic limestone or metal plate with oil, fat, or wax. Pablo Picasso Colombe Volant (Flying Dove), 1952 But with the meeting of Mourlot in 1945 he began a long and prosperous collaborative relationship with the printmakerвЂ™s atelier. Most of his work up until this point was in black and white and very few prints were Picasso lithographs. Before 1945, Picasso lithographs were dabbled in between his work in etching and aquatint. Picasso Lithographs, especially, was something the artist experimented in heavily with the help of master printmaker Fernand Mourlot. Picasso utilized and experimented in many forms of printmaking techniques, from etching to aquatint to lithography.

IвЂ™m heading in new directions.вЂќДЇind a collection of Joan MirГі art on 1stDibs.Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is widely known for his paintings and sculpture, but his work in printmaking is just as prolific. Five years before that, he was quoted saying, вЂњI painted these paintings in a frenzy, with real violence so that people will know that I am alive, that IвЂ™m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go.

MirГІ continued to work and experiment until his death at the age of 90 in 1983. The radical visual world MirГі created with his expressive lines, signature symbols and biomorphic shapes influenced such American Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Color Field painters like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.

Female and avian forms, along with bright colors and the theme of Catalan pride, are recurring elements in his work. To this day, a number of his public artworks can be found there, including the 72-foot-tall statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird), 1983. MirГівЂ™s identity is largely rooted in the city of his birth: Barcelona. Although often considered an early Surrealist because of his nonobjective imagery and evocation of the subconscious, he defies neat categorization. With his wide-ranging oeuvre, comprising strikingly original paintings, prints, ceramics, sculptures, metal engravings and murals, Catalan modernist Joan MirГі (1893вЂ“1983) was a critical force in moving 20th-century art toward complete abstraction.

Miro lithograph