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Joan Miró has been featured in articles for e-flux, ARTnews and Daily Art Magazine. The most recent article is Artworks by Syd Solomon, Joan Miro and Dale Chihuly perform well at Ahlers & Ogletree ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...