Joan Miró
1893–1983
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In Tate Liverpool
In Tate Modern
In Tate Britain
Biography
Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mi-ROH, US also mee-ROH, Catalan: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo j fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Joan Miró Untitled
1964 -
Joan Miró The Matador
1969 -
Joan Miró Constellations
1959 -
Joan Miró Painting
1927 -
Joan Miró Woman
1949 -
Joan Miró The Tightrope Walker
1970 -
Joan Miró Message from a Friend
1964 -
Joan Miró May 68
1968–73
Artist as subject
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R.B. Kitaj Mort
1966 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 38
[c.1962–7] -
Ben Nicholson OM List of essays with the heading, ‘Essays by Anatole Jakovski’
date not known -
Ben Nicholson OM First draft of an article by Ben Nicholson with editing
30 November 1966 -
Ben Nicholson OM Drafts for an article with the heading, ‘Apropos letter to Charles H.’
September 1968 -
Eileen Agar Notes by Eileen Agar on her stay with Picasso at Mougins
[1988] -
Eileen Agar, Andrew Lambirth Typewritten lecture entitled ‘Surrealism in England in the 1930s’ given by Andrew Lambirth and Eileen Agar at the Royal College of Art
[1988] -
Sidney Janis Gallery Leaflet for an exhibition entitled, ‘Selection of French Art’ at the Sidney Janis Gallery
1955 -
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (London, UK), Klaus Hinrichsen Typescript for ‘Interned with Kurt Schwitters’
[May 1988]
Film and audio
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The Monster's Smile: Joan Baixas in Conversation with Aura Satz
Theatre director, dramatist, poet and painter Joan Baixas talks about the seminal project ‘Mori el Merma’, for which his company …
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