Joan Miró
1893–1983
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In Tate Liverpool
Constellations: Max Ernst
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In Tate Modern
Materials and Objects: Collage
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In Tate Britain
Biography
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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Joan Miró Painting
1927
Joan Miró Women and Bird in the Moonlight
1949
Joan Miró A Star Caresses the Breast of a Negress (Painting Poem)
1938
Joan Miró Composition
1947
Joan Miró Head of a Catalan Peasant
1925
Joan Miró Constellations
1959
Joan Miró Woman
1949
Joan Miró Message from a Friend
1964
Artist as subject
R.B. Kitaj Mort
1966
Sidney Janis Gallery Leaflet for an exhibition entitled, ‘Selection of French Art’ at the Sidney Janis Gallery
1955
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]
Eileen Agar Notes by Eileen Agar on her stay with Picasso at Mougins
[1988]
Ben Nicholson OM First draft of an article by Ben Nicholson with editing
30 November 1966
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 38
[c.1962–7]
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
Playlist
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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Unlock Art: Exploring the Surreal
The Doctor travels through time to bring us the story of Surrealism
TateShots
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 3: Eva Bosch
This is a video recording from the Joan Miró Study Day held at Tate Modern and features Eva Bosch
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Joan Miró Study Day – Part 2: Matthew Gale
This is a video recording from the Joan Miró Study Day held at Tate Modern and features curator Matthew Gale
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Joan Miró Study Day – Part 7: Jon Bird
This is a video recording from the Joan Miró Study Day held at Tate Modern and features Jon Bird
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Joan Miró Study Day – Part 1: Introduction
This is a video recording from the Joan Miró Study Day held at Tate Modern and is the introduction to ...
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Joan Miró Study Day – Part 6: Nigel Warburton
This is a video recording from the Joan Miró Study Day held at Tate Modern and features Nigel Warburton
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Joan Miró Study Day – Part 5: Discussion
This is a video recording from the Joan Miró Study Day held at Tate Modern and features a group discussion
Features
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 at ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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