Art review: A passage into Joan Miró's world. Art review: A passage into Joan Miró's world. News. Home Page ... It’s a large picture, almost 5 feet wide and not quite square.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sotheby's set a new auction record for Spanish artist Joan Miro on Tuesday when his 1927 painting "Peinture (Etoile Bleue)" fetched $36.9 million, but elsewhere the sale failed to meet ...

A painting by Joan Miro sold for $36.9 million at a London auction Tuesday. The Sotheby’s sale of Miro’s “Peinture (Etoile Bleue)” was an auction record for the late Spanish artist.