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 picture, ...
artist, spread out over two floors and a series of rooms. To say the show is grand in scale–with pieces dating from 1918 to 1974–is an understatement, but it isn’t until the second floor that Miró’s ...
Next up in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art Matters Lecture Series is Joan Miró in Time and Space, 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 4 in the museum’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St. The ...
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 tensions of ...
Last week’s Impressionist and modern evening auction at Sotheby’s featured a major Joan Miró painting from the private collection of Chicago collector and philanthropist Jerome Stone. The piece, which ...
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 audiences on the West Coast of the United ...
The works of Joan Miró were the subject of a recent major retrospective exhibition, “The Ladder of Escape”, at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. The exhibition first appeared at the Tate Modern in ...
Zurich’s Galerie Gmurzynska opened its survey of Surrealist master Joan Miró’s work this past weekend with an adventurous performance by the artist’s grandson, Joan Punyet Miró, entitled Surrealism ...
How a movement went from dreamworld to vanguard to establishment of its own. By Arthur Lubow Swim in azure waters, visit an 18th-century glassblowing factory and explore the picturesque towns of this ...