Joan Miró, “Le Vol de l’oiseau par le clair de lune (The Flight of the Bird by Moonlight)” (October 30, 1967), oil on canvas, 51.2 x 102.25 inches (photo by Tom Powel Imaging. Courtesy of ...

A painter who declared an “assassination of painting,” an absolute denial of the established aesthetics celebrated among the bourgeoisie of the 1930s - that was who Joan Miro (1893-1983) was.

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 ...

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 ...

JEFFREY BROWN: A new element of late Miro is the interplay between painting and sculpture. In "Woman, Bird and Star," Manchanda says, you can see Miro's use of shapes and collage, and then compare ...

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 ...

When Joan Miró visited the United States in 1947, it was an inaugural trip to a country in which he was already a star. Miró’s early works – created from the 1920s to the 1940s – had offered the ...

104 x 74.6 cm. (40.9 x 29.4 in.) Jacques Dupin & Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró Catalogue raisonné. Paintings, 1959-1968, Paris, 2002, vol. IV, no. 1041, illustrated p. 41. In Femmes et Oiseaux , ...

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.