Joan Miró was a Spanish Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1893. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. Numerous key galleries and museums ...

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 ...

Miro’s suggestible approach chimed with Leonardo da Vinci’s famous advice about letting small visual prompts trigger the imagination. ... Joan Miró (b. 1893). At the Art Institute of Chicago.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monday, April 20, 1981, was artist Joan Miró's 88th birthday. It was also the day that Mayor Jane Byrne pulled a cord to unveil Miró's iconic contribution to the aesthetics of downtown Chicago.

In 1893, Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983) was born in Barcelona. As the son of a goldsmith, Miró did not grow up in an art-oriented family, but in a business-oriented one. His father was well ...

The painting, in oil and crayon and measuring roughly 5 feet by 4 feet, is unmistakably by Joan Miró. Titled “Head of a Catalan Peasant,” it’s the first of four “Head” canvases made in ...

Enrolled at the School of Commerce and also attended classes at the School of Industrial and Fine Arts, Barcelona, Spain Diaghilev commissioned Miró and Ernst to design the sets and costumes for the ...

Joan Miro (1893-1983), one of the greatest Spanish painters of the 20th century, was born in Barcelona, Catalonia.

Joan Miró set out to destroy painting. Story by Sebastian Smee • 1d. When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, ... Miro’s suggestible approach chimed with Leonardo da Vinci’s ...