A bronze Miro sculpture interrupts the sidewalk below the grand Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca. It stretches up, the height of two men, a hollowed concave rectangle topped by a large egg-shaped nugget ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Starting in the summer of 1921, Joan Miró began to paint a large picture of his family’s farm in the coastal village of Mont-roig, south of Barcelona, Spain. It’s a large picture, ...
In 1893, Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983) was born in Barcelona. As the son of a goldsmith, Miró did not grow up in an art-oriented family, but in a business-oriented one. His father was well aware of ...
The works of Joan Miró were the subject of a recent major retrospective exhibition, “The Ladder of Escape”, at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. The exhibition first appeared at the Tate Modern in ...
Seattle Art Museum contemporary and modern art curator Catharina Manchanda calls Joan Miró one of the great avant-garde artists of the 20th century. But audiences on the West Coast of the United ...
Preparatory object for the sculpture Joan Miró's "Personnage" (c.1970) (image courtesy Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Photographic Archive) Miró was born in 1893 to a family of craftspeople.
As Spain made its transition from dictatorship to democracy after General Franco’s death in 1975, the Catalan artist Joan Miró was swiftly drafted into service for national PR. Although now well into ...
For Spanish artist Joan Miró, the everyday always sparked fascination and inspiration. Endlessly curious about the poetic qualities inherent in ordinary and humble objects, the artist, who died in ...
Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà i ...
Joan Miró, the master 20th century surrealist painter and sculptor, will be the subject of a Denver Art Museum exhibition this spring, the museum announced recently. Titled “Joan Miró: Instinct & ...
Joan Miro (1893-1983), one of the greatest Spanish painters of the 20th century, was born in Barcelona, Catalonia. From the start of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s to the end of the dictatorship ...
artist, spread out over two floors and a series of rooms. To say the show is grand in scale–with pieces dating from 1918 to 1974–is an understatement, but it isn’t until the second floor that Miró’s ...
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