Joan Miró set out to destroy painting . ... Miro’s suggestible approach chimed with Leonardo da Vinci’s famous advice about letting small visual prompts trigger the imagination.

Joan Miró set out to destroy painting. ... Miro’s suggestible approach chimed with Leonardo da Vinci’s famous advice about letting small visual prompts trigger the imagination.

Until a recent analysis of Pintura by Fundació Joan Miró, however, it was Freudian secret that the artist took to the grave. The small oil painting came into the Foundation’s collection in ...

How did postwar New York painting influence one of its foremost European progenitors? This question is posed as a partial rationale for Nahmad Contemporary’s current show Joan Miró: Oiseux Dans ...

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 ...

The works of painter Joan Miró were recently the subject of a major retrospective exhibition, “The Ladder of Escape”, at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. The show opens in Washington, D ...

In 1927, Spanish artist Joan Miró declared, "I want to assassinate painting." Miró spent the next 10 years shattering and subverting the conventions of art through collage, construction and, yes ...

Spanish Surrealist Joan Miró found refuge in the natural world—even during the most turbulent of times. In fact, from J anuary 1940 to September 1941, just as World War II broke out, the artist ...

In 1927, Joan Miro (1893-1983) claimed he wanted to 'assassinate' painting. Eventually he hit upon a means of doing it — sculpture.

Visitors look at a Joan Miro's "The Farmer and His Wife" 1936, at Sotheby's auction house during a press preview. The work will be sold at auction on Feb. 5 in London.