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Joan Miro: 1893-1983 (Basic Art)
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Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the 20th century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial works. In his travels, Miro encountered the intellectual avant-garde of his time. His friends included Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Andr Masson, Jean Arp and Pablo Picasso. From the mid-twenties onward, Miro strove to leave direct objective references behind and developed the pictograms that typify his style. The pictures of this period, which include perhaps the most beautiful and significant ones of his whole oeuvre, dispense with spatiality and an unambiguous reference to objects. From now on, the surfaces are defined by numerals, writing, abstract emblems, and playful figures and creatures. Nineteen-forty-four saw the beginning of his extensive graphic oeuvre, ceramics, monumental mural works, and sculptures. In these works, too, the Catalan artist sought the solid foundation of a figurative, symbolic art with orientation as regards content: faces, stars, moons, rudimentary animal forms, letters. Joan Miro developed in several stages his characteristic flowing calligraphic style and his world of forms resembling shorthand symbols.
This title in the Modern Masters series focuses on the work of Joan Miro, one of the painters most often associated with surrealism. Miro studied art in his native Barcelona before joining the Paris art scene in the 1920s. Fantasy, dreams, and myths played an important role in Miro's early works, many of which are included in the more than 70 full-color reproductions of paintings, sculptures, and tapestries in this collection. This is a fine introduction to the monumental works of one of the foremost artists of the 20th century.
Joan Miró
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This affordably priced monograph provides an ideal introduction to the joyful visual world of Joan Miró (1893-1983), one of the twentieth century's greatest and most beloved artists, whose pictorial language--for once the right term--was appropriated by a gamut of modernist causes and avant gardes, from Art Brut and the espousers of children's art to Surrealism (André Breton called him "the most Surrealist of us all" ), practitioners of automatism and even Color Field painting. In over 100 color plates, this book surveys not only the paintings for which Miró is most famed, but also his equally innovative experiments in other realms, such as ceramics, sculpture, editions, printmaking, tapestry (including the "World Trade Center Tapestry" which was sadly destroyed on September 11) and stage design for Diaghilev, among others. Miró's contagious sense of play and pleasure in materials is perfectly represented in this introductory volume.
Joan Miro
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For nearly seven decades the ebullient art of Joan Miro (1893-1983), Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramist and mythmaker, has intrigued and enchanted art lovers worldwide. This collection of his writings presents a portrait of the artist in his own words. Miro's notebooks, letters, and interviews reveal the work and life of a brilliant artist revered for his uncanny expression of the subconscious. "Joan Miro" centres on Paris during the vibrant era between the wars, when Miro became the intimate of almost everyone in that scene - boxing with young Hemingway, working with Max Ernst on the Ballets Russes, drinking, painting and arguing with Picasso, Braque, Dubuffet, Matisse, Breton and many others. Miro engagingly recounts all of this, as well as stories of his exile during World War II. Miro's virtuosity encompassed drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, poetry, stage sets, costumes, murals and tapestries; he vividly describes the creation of these artworks in these pages.
Joan Miro: Snail Woman Flower Star (Art Flexi Series)
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Tracing Miró s career, this book begins in the 1920s with the artist s introduction to surrealism, cubism, and dadaism, and the flowering of his friendships with Picasso, Braque and other influential artists and poets. It moves on to his creation of an iconographic pictorial style, which reached maturity in the 1940s and forever distinguished Miró from his contemporaries. Nearly one hundred of his greatest works reproduced in this book display the artistic range of this lyrical painter, whose brilliant use of color, line, and shape resulted in haunting compositions. Fascinating photographs depict the artist at various stages of his life and perceptive essays about his work round out this exciting perspective of the world as portrayed in Miró s art.
Miró: Catalogue Raisonnné, Drawings, Volume II: 1938-1959
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For Joan Miró (1893-1983) drawing was a critical component of the creative process. Published in seven volumes, Poligrafa's catalogue raisonné is the definitive resource on the artist's works on paper--executed in pencil, watercolor, gouache and pastel--along with his drawings on various other supports such as cardboard, metal and wood. In these volumes, all works are reproduced in color, whenever possible, and accompanied by their title, date, technique and dimensions, with indication of signature and inscriptions on the back. Also recorded are the collection, provenance, important exhibitions and major publications where they have been previously reproduced. This second drawings volume surveys the years between 1938 and 1959.
Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937
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Taking Joan Miro's notorious declaration of 1927--"I want to assassinate painting"--as its point of departure, this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Miro the "anti-painter," identifying the core practices and strategies the artist used to challenge painting between 1927 and 1937. Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 surveys the various material, iconographical and rhetorical forms of Miro's attacks on painting by presenting, in chronological sequence, 12 distinct series of works, beginning with a remarkable group of paintings on unprimed canvas and concluding with Miro's return to Realism in "Still Life with Old Shoe" (1937). Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, stylistic heterogeneity and the use of resistant, ready-made materials are among the key tactics of aggression that are explored in this extraordinary presentation of the interrelated and oppositional series of paintings, collages, objects and drawings Miro produced during this crucial decade of his long career. This volume integrates close scrutiny of Miro's materials and processes with historical and iconographic analysis, leading to an expanded understanding of the underappreciated aggressiveness of an artist long regarded as Surrealism's most lyrical painter-poet. Joan Miro was born in 1893 in Barcelona. After his first trip to Paris in 1920, and through 1931, Miro generally spent half of each year in the French capitol and half in his native Catalonia, returning to live in France after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. One of the twentieth century's greatest Modern artists, Miro created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. He died in 1983 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Miro Joan News
Hirst's Pills, Twombly Squiggles Boost $67 Million New Museum
Bloomberg - May 26, 2009
The Brandhorsts began collecting in 1971 and their first joint purchase was a 1929 collage by Joan Miro. They later turned to contemporary art. In 1993, they created a Munich-based foundation to manage both the art and capital for future acquisitions.
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Swiss artist wins Joan Miró Prize - Swissinfo
Swissinfo, Switzerland - May 22, 5510
Swiss artist wins Joan Miró PrizePipilotti Rist has won the second Joan Miró Prize. The art award, worth €70000 (SFr106,000), is one of the largest of its kind. The jury said that Rist had been recognised for her wide-ranging creative activity and her outstanding contribution to the
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Home of the surreal - The National
The National, United Arab Emirates - May 24, 2009
Home of the surrealDepressed by this failure, he moved to Paris, where he became friends with Andre Breton and his clique, which included Jean Arp, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró. He had a stormy relationship with Breton about art and politics until eventually they fell out
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Joan Miró at Haggenmacher Court - Budapest Times
Budapest Times, Hungary - May 11, 2009
Joan Miró at Haggenmacher CourtThe Haggenmacher Court is presenting an exhibition of Joan Miró's original posters until 30 May. The collection is on loan from the Kristianstad Center for Contemporary Art in Sweden which boasts the only complete collection of original Miró posters.
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UK architect Norman Foster wins arts award in Spain - GMA news.tv
GMA news.tv, Philippines - May 20, 2009
BBC NewsUK architect Norman Foster wins arts award in SpainIt hands out eight such awards each year in categories including literature, communications, sports and scientific research. Each prize includes a €50000 ($68000) cash award and a sculpture by Joan Miro. Previous winners in the arts category include UK's Norman Foster Joins Bob Dylan as Spain Arts Prize Winner Norman Foster receives 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
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