Just like Kandinsky, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting and famously declared an “assassination of painting” of bourgeois art, which he thought of as a way to promote propaganda and cultural identity among the wealthy. Cubism had then become an established art form in France and the Miró quote “I will break their guitar,” referred to Picasso’s cubist guitar paintings, with the intent to attack the popularity and appropriation of Picasso’s art by the politics.
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