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 ...

Miró: The Experience of Seeing The Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Dr., Durham 919-684-5135 www.nasher.duke.edu Through Feb. 22 Joan Miró was overwhelmed by “the spectacle of the sky.” One ...

When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, framers, conservators, curators, administrators and architects ...

Catalonian artist Joan Miro had a farm. And on this farm he had an easel on which he created large, wonderful paintings of it that are among his most famous works. Now, with Spain in economic ...

What is anti-painting? Generally it connotes a way of creating art without using conventional techniques and materials, though many avant-garde artists have defined it differently. Some of the more ...

The exhibition covers six decades. There are early masterpieces such as The Farm (1921-22), once owned by Ernest Hemingway. There are mid-career triumphs, including Still Life with Old Shoe (1937 ...

We often associate art with creation, admittedly a perfectly rational thought. We imagine the artist toiling away--dripping paint, molding clay, submerging animals in formaldehyde, whatever--until ...

Joan Miró set out to destroy painting . The Spaniard applied free association to the canvas with radical results.

This painting really was executed by Spanish artist Joan Miro, and in 2012 it sold at a Sotheby's auction for 23.56 million pounds (approximately $37 million).. Equating this painting, entitled ...

He wanted to return painting to first principles. But he was less interested in imposing those principles on you and me than in finding out for himself what they were and seeing where they might lead.