WASHINGTON — Joan Miró, the great Spanish painter of dreams and symbols, lived through so many harrowing eras of the 20th century that critics believe his masterpieces surely reflect the tensions of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Zurich’s Galerie Gmurzynska opened its survey of Surrealist master Joan Miró’s work this past weekend with an adventurous performance by the artist’s grandson, Joan Punyet Miró, entitled Surrealism ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joan Miró was overwhelmed by “the spectacle of the sky.” One of the most enduring abstract artists of the 20th century, the Catalan Spanish painter and sculptor described the relationship between the ...
On Tuesday 19 June, Joan Miró’s 1927 masterpiece Peinture (Étoile Bleue) sold for US$36.9m at Sotheby’s London sale of impressionist and modern art This year the sum paid has been the highest price ...
A valuable painting by the Spanish artist Joan Miró was damaged at Tate Modern when a visitor tripped and fell onto it with both hands. By Roya Nikkhah and Royanikkhah 06 January 2013 • 7:10am Joan ...
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