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Artist: Joan Miro (1893 - 1983)
Nationality: Spanish
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting, Ceramics
Influences:

Biography:
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Joan Miro studied under Franciso Gali, originally painting in Fauvist and Cubist style. After poor reviews of his first solo exhibition, Miro traveled to Paris to seek out Pablo Picasso, who introduced Miro to the Surrealist, whom he joined in 1924. Interested by the relationship of art and the subconscious mind and slightly skeptical of Surrealism, Miro began to create his own biomorphic and semi-abstract forms in the late 1920’s. During the Spanish Civil War, he moved to France, but returned home when Nazis invaded France during World War II. Miro’s ideas were in demand, and he received multiple


Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Balthus - Joan Miro and His Daughter Dolores 1937-38 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Artist: Joan Miro Title: The Spanish Playing Cards Date: 1920 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:
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Artist: Joan Miró Title: Head of a Woman Date: 1938 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:
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Artist: Joan Miro and Paul Eluard and Gérald Cramer Title: A Tonte Epreuve Date: 1958
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Joan Miro - Nocturne 1935 oil on copper Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
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Joan Miro - Still Life I 1922-23 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Joan MIro - Still Life II 1922-23 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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JOan Miro - Untitled n.d. serigraph Tufts University Art Gallery Spanish
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Joan Miro - Figure 1932 oil on panel The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Joan MIro - Woman 1976 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Joan Miro - The Farm 1921-1922 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Joan Miro - Composition 1937 Oil on composition b University of California, Berkeley Art Museum Spanish
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Joan Miro - Signs and Configurations 1936 oil, sand, and tar o Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame Spanish
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Joan Miro - Lunar Bird 1944-1946 bronze Hirshhorn Museum Spanish
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Joan Miro - The King's Jester 1926 oil, pencil and char Milwaukee Art Museum Spanish
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Joan Miro - Head of a Woman 1938 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
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Joan Miro - Person in the Night 1971 charcoal, ink Arkansas Arts Center Spanish
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Joan Miro - Man, Women and Bull 1935 Oil and metal fasten The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Joan Miro - Dog Barking at the Moon 1926 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art Spanish
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Joan Miro - Shooting Star 1938 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Joan Miro - The Birth of the World 1925 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Joan Miro - Rope and People I 1935 oil on cardboard mou The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Joan Miro - The Kerosene Lamp 1924 charcoal, with red c The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Joan Miro - Circus Horse 1927 Oil and tempera on c The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Joan Miro - Personages with Star 1933 Oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Joan Miro USA, 1965 Photograph,
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Joan Miro - Yellow Moon Bird n.d. color aquatinit on p Hirshhorn Museum Spanish
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Joan Miro - Portrait of Heriberto Casany 1918 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Spanish
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Joan Miro - Woman and Little Girl in Front of the Sun 1946 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum Spanish
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Joan Miro - Untitled from Ediciones Poligrifa n.d. lithograph Museum of Art and Science Brevard Spanish
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Joan Miro - Portrait of Juanita Obrador 1918 Oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Joan Miro - Portrait of a Young Girl 1935 oil with sand on car New Orleans Museum of Art Spanish
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Joan Miro - Painting (Circus Horse) 1927 oil and pencil on bu Hirshhorn Museum Spanish
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Joan Miro - Two Personages in Love with a Woman 1936 Oil on copper The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Joan Miro - Still Life -- Glove and Newspaper 1921 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Spanish
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Joan Miro - The Spanish Playing Cards 1920 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
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Joan MIro - Constellation: Awakening in the Early Morning 1941 gouache and oil wash Kimbell Art Museum Spanish
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Joan Miro - Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman 1941 gouache and watercol The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel - Joan of Arc Series (F) The Trial of Joan of Arc 1911 oil and gold leaf Corcoran Gallery of Art French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Juan Miro Foundation: Juan Miro: Parade of Obsessions
This exhibition is organised around the preliminary drawings and sketches that Miró produced in 1968 for L’Śil-Oiseau, a show combining music, poetry and dance, with scenario by Jacques Dupin, based on the artist’s work and creative process. They ...

Joan Miró Foundation: Klee, Tanguy, Miró. Three approaches to landscape
Paul Klee (München-Buchsee, Berne, 1879 – Locarno, 1940) stands as a lone figure in the panorama of twentieth-century painting. A member of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, he was also a teacher at the Bauhaus. In the 1920s he began to t...

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein: Klee, Tanguy, Miro Three Approaches to Landscape.
The art-historical tradition of landscape painting was radically transformed by classical modernity. In the wake of the Impressionists, landscape was turned into an artful construction that uses Nature merely as a stimulus ...

Joan Miro Foundation: Espai 13, Homo ludens. Art at play - Olympia by Grazia Toderi
Born in Padua in 1963, Grazia Toderi lives and works in Milan. Focusing on video, she operates with real images, altered very discreetly by computer. Distant galaxies, theatres, stadia – her subject matter is varied but she creates an atmosphere t...

Juan Miro Foundation: Irony: Works by Over 30 Artists Dealing with the Subject of Irony
The exhibition consists of video projections, installations, photographs and sculptures by Francis Al˙s, Ibon Aramberri, Marcel Broodthaers, Joan Brossa, Maurizio Cattelan, Wim Delvoye, Christian Jancowsky, Jeff Koons, Zbigniew Libera, Javier Long...

Joan Miro Foundation: Limits of Perception: Works in Photography, Sculpture, Painting and Video-installation
The 16 artists in this show are some of the more radical exponents of an artistic manifestation in recent decades that questions the role of art, adopting postures that strike at the frontal act of contemplation. Their works present segments...

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: From Picasso to Tŕpies: Spanish 20th Century Art from the Reina Sofia
Spanish artists working in the period before 1945 exercised a major influence on artistic developments in the twentieth century. They were in the vanguard of the changes taking place in the art world, in style, in professional attitudes and in the...

Galerie Miro: Frank Ettenberg: Non-objective Painter
Ettenberg also recently learned that the Chairman of Northwestern College's art department in St Paul, arrived at his Santa Fe studio and selected an entire set of Postcard Paintings (Acrylic over a reproduction of 'Standing Fast', Acrylic on Ca...

Joan Miro Foundation: Jean Arp: A Retrospective
Jean Arp (Strasbourg, 1886 – Basle, 1966), sculptor, painter and poet, moved to Zurich during the First World War. There, in 1916, together with Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and Richard Huelsenbeck, he founded the Dada movement, which had its centre o...

Joan Miro Foundation: Homo ludens. Art at play: You and I by Thomas Huber
The emphasis is on the notion of the pictorial space – a space with a certain depth where a very "different" universe develops in which the radical figures, landscapes and architecture exist in two dimensions, totally unconcerned with what is goin...

Joan Miro Foundation: Angle of vision: 143ş - Objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appear
The work of the artists taking part in the cycle explores new perspectives, in an approach to the world around them from out-of-the-ordinary points of view. They believe in the possibility of difference and therefore accept discussion and question...

Fundaçăo Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Derriere le Miroir: 35 Original Engravings from the Magazine 1946 to 1982
The magazine, itself designed as an art object sumptuously presented in a large (38 x 28 cm) format, is illustrated with original lithographs as well as a number of reproductions. Poets and writers like Aragon, Beckett, Char, Eluard, Prévert, Quen...

Joan Miro Foundation: Woman. Metamorphosis of Modernity
The list of artists comprises Tarsila do Amaral, Gertrude Arndt, Jean Arp/Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Braque, Louise Bourgeois, Marianne Breslauer, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Valie Export, Emmanuel Goundouin, Lotte Jacobi, Yv...

Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Russian Icons, the Saints
Noted for its outstanding exhibitions the Fondation Gianadda, constructed over Roman ruins, since its opening in 1978, has presented works by such distinguished artists as Chagall, Gauguin, van Gogh, Kahlo, Kandinsky, Lautrec, M...

Toledo Museum of Art: THE MODERN WOODCUT
The Modern Woodcut draws on the permanent collection of the Toledo Museum of Art to exhibit European and American artists using this traditional technique in a variety of formats. The show includes individual prints and prints bound into books, a...

Joan Miro Foundation: Flock by Aernout Mik
This exhibition by Aernout Mik, his first one-man show in Spain, was preceded by those by Xavier Veilhan, Daniel Chust Peters, Grazia Toderi, Vik Muniz and Thomas Huber. Born in Gröningen in the Netherlands, Aernout Mik lives and works in Am...

Metropolitan Museum: Painters in Paris: 1895–1950
Painters in Paris: 1895–1950, an exhibition of more than 100 paintings by many of the 20th ...

Michael Dunev Art Projects: THE ARCHITECT DRAWS: Homage to JL Sert
Linked to the city of Barcelona, these architects present drawings in pencil and ink, watercolours or sketches that weave the complex tapestry beauty and the creative process.  Somewhere between the architectural plan, sometimes visionary, and the...

Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Requiem for the Staircase: Curated by Architect Oscar Tusquets
Professor Juan Antonio Ramirez has selected a few very important paintings and drawings representing the entire history of art, in which each of the stairways has been represented by great artists. These are accompanied by film footage and lit...

Joan Miro Foundation: Space Concept: 26 Works from the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig
Anne and Patrick Poirier, Ilya Kabakov and Günter Förg create architectural pieces and mythological images, metaphors for models of human communication and social relations. These objects and installations reflect the impor...

National Galleries of Scotland, Dean Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art: THE SURREALIST AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER: ROLAND PENROSE AND LEE MILLER
Already a Surrealist artist of considerable talent, Penrose became a tireless champion of modern art through his activities as a collector, writer and exhibition organiser. A former Vogue model, Lee Miller was a remarkable photographer who later ...

Juan Miro Foundation: Something for Everyone: Cycle Selected by Ferran Barenblit, Frederic Montornés and Mňnica Regŕs; Works by Douglas Gordon, Joseph Grigely, Joăo Louro, La pensée et l’erreur
Douglas Gordon will be showing in the Octagonal Room at the FJM, Joăo Louro will be using the Espai 13 itself, and Joseph Grigely's proposal will consist of a poster – which is in fact the exhibit – displayed at selected points around the city as ...

Joan Miro Foundation: ESPAI 13: Psychodrome - Curated by Grazia Quaroni and David Renaud
Psychodrome, the title of the cycle, refers to a circuit in a defined space – the exhibition space in which a basic module will be installed in the form of a circular structure that will change according to the needs of the different artists. It a...

Juan Miro Foundation: Homo ludens. Art at play: Lightworks

This cycle is concerned with art and play, two concepts that are and always have been necessary in all epochs and all civilisations. As children, we learn about the world through play, and at every stage of our life we need time for play so that n...
Joan Miro Foundation: Sunflower
This idea of transformation is fundamental to his entire work, and the fact of converting a work of art – traditionally an aesthetic object destined only to be looked at – into an inhabitable object with a specific function reveals his capacity fo...

Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Paris and The Surrealists
The Centre de Cultura Contemporŕnia de Barcelona presents the exhibition PARIS AND THE SURREALISTS, curated by the art historian and critic Victoria Combalía, which will run in Gallery 2 of the CCCB from 17 February to 22 May 2005. The exhibition ...

Joan Miro Foundation: Fernand Léger: Selected by Brigitte Hedel-Samson
Brigitte Hedel-Samson, the curator, divides Léger’s career into six periods: 1905-1907, when he was trying to find his own style; 1918-1924, when he was working in a very personal Cubist style; 1925-1930, when he produced his highly original compo...

Catto Contemporary: HONEY, I shrunk the Turner Prize: the Little Turner Prize
Catto Contemporary is proud to confirm a major solo Christmas exhibition of The Little Artists in November 2003 until Christmas Eve. Included in the show will be a brand new piece (which is larger than previous work), presenting a gallery scene fe...

Joan Miro Foundation: The beauty of failure / The failure of beauty
The exhibition is about how great dreams and utopias that seem so splendid in the abstract are doomed to failure when we try to materialise them, because they presuppose an entirely new, ideal society that can never exist. The show is divid...

Museo del Prado: The Spanish Portrait from El Greco to Picasso
Over the course of three and a half months and through a selection of 84 works, the exhibition devoted to the Spanish portrait will present a survey of the development of this genre in Spanish art from the late fifteenth century to the ea...

Further Artwork and Information:

Fundació Miró
Joan Miro Online
Miro
Mark Hardens Artchive - Joan Miro
Joan Miró - Art Images - Works and Biography - OCAIW
Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró
Joan Miró - Olgas Gallery
Joan Miro: EnchantedLearning.com
CGFA- Joan Miró
Global Gallery - Joan Miro - Artist Biography

 

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