Joan Miró
1893–1983
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In Tate Liverpool
Constellations: Max Ernst
Free entryIn Tate Modern
Materials and Objects: Collage
Free entryIn Tate Modern
In the Studio: International Surrealism
Free entryBiography
Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mi-ROH, also US: 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 de Mallorca in 1981.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and 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 Painting
1927 -
Joan Miró Women and Bird in the Moonlight
1949 -
Joan Miró Head of a Catalan Peasant
1925 -
Joan Miró A Star Caresses the Breast of a Negress (Painting Poem)
1938 -
Joan Miró Message from a Friend
1964 -
Joan Miró Composition
1947 -
Joan Miró The Matador
1969 -
Joan Miró Constellations
1959
Artist as subject
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R.B. Kitaj Mort
1966 -
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 -
Ben Nicholson OM First draft of an article by Ben Nicholson with editing
30 November 1966 -
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 38
[c.1962–7] -
Eileen Agar Notes by Eileen Agar on her stay with Picasso at Mougins
[1988] -
Ben Nicholson OM Drafts for an article with the heading, ‘Apropos letter to Charles H.’
September 1968 -
Ben Nicholson OM List of essays with the heading, ‘Essays by Anatole Jakovski’
date not known -
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (London, UK), Klaus Hinrichsen Typescript for ‘Interned with Kurt Schwitters’
[May 1988]
Film and audio
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MixTate: Kara-Lis Coverdale on Joan Miró
Montréal-based composer Kara-Lis Coverdale sees a story of engagement in Joan Miró’s etching -
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Joan Miró: Retrospective
Joan Miró's works come to London in the first major retrospective here for nearly 50 years -
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Joan Miró: A Retrospective
Curator walkthrough of Joan Miró's major restrospective in 2011 -
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Joan Miró Study Day – Part 1
Audio recordings of the past Tate Modern conference, Joan Miró Study Day, related to the 2011 Miro exhibition at Tate … -
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Joan Miró Study Day – Part 2
Audio recordings of the past Tate Modern conference, Joan Miró Study Day, related to the 2011 Miro exhibition at Tate … -
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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 … -
TateShots
Desmond Morris on Joan Miró
The zoologist and artist tell us about the time he took Miró on a tour of London Zoo
Features
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Tate Etc
Between terror and ecstasy: Artistic hallucination
Stories of hallucinations in art and literature date back to the Bible, but the idea of the artistic hallucination is … -
Art Term
Automatism
In art, automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the … -
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Joan Miró 1893–1983 and Joan Baixas born 1946Merma Never Dies 1978
Case study on Joan Miró and Joan Baixas's Merma Never Dies 1978, part of Performance at Tate: Into the Space … -
Tate Etc
A hymn of freedom: Joan Miró I
In 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, several Spanish artists were commissioned by the Republican Government to … -
Tate Etc
Say hello to my python: Joan Miró III
The celebrated zoologist and Surrealist painter shared his first London exhibition with Miró – and introduced him to a snake … -
Tate Etc
On the roll of a dice: Joan Miró II
When Miró was a penniless painter in Paris in the 1920s, he became friends with the writer Ernest Hemingway, who … -
Tate Etc
Burn, canvas, burn: Joan Miró
While the work of Joan Miró (1893–1983) may be well known across the world, a forthcoming exhibition at Tate Modern … -
Tate Etc
Tate Etc. issue 21: Spring 2011
Tate Etc. Issue 21: Visiting and revisiting Art, etcetera; online edition of Tate's magazine
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