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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 ...
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 ...
The 60 works here, from the last two decades of Miro's long life, after he was already famous, are from the collection of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, and none have ever been shown in the U.S.
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 ...
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 ...
Through most of its history the Museum of Modern Art, with its collection of the Catalan artist’s work, has rarely shown him in depth. A new exhibition there aims at last to give him his due.
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 ...
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 ...
Christie's has withdrawn 85 artworks by Spanish surrealist Joan Miró from its auctions in London this week, after an uproar in Portugal over the government's move to sell the works in an attempt ...
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 ...