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Joan Miro lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of Spanish-Catalan Surrealism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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- Dancer
‘Dancer’ was created in 1925 by Joan Miro in Surrealism...
- The Tilled Field
‘The Tilled Field’ was created in 1923 by Joan Miro in...
- The Ear of Grain
‘The Ear of Grain’ was created in 1923 by Joan Miro in...
- The Smile of The Flamboyant Wings
‘The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings’ was created in 1953 by...
- Bathing Woman, 1925
‘Bathing Woman’ was created in 1925 by Joan Miro in...
- The Birth of Day, 1968
‘The Birth of Day’ was created in 1968 by Joan Miro in...
- Blue Ii, 1961
‘Blue II’ was created in 1961 by Joan Miro in Abstract...
- Self-Portrait, 1917
‘Self-Portrait’ was created in 1917 by Joan Miro in Fauvism...
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- Portrait of Vincent Nubiola
- The Tilled Field
- May 1968
- Still Life with Old Shoe
- The Escape Ladder
- Catalan Landscape
- Painting
- Blue II
- The Harlequin’s Carnival
- The Farm
Vincent Nubiola was a professor of agriculture at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona whom Miro met while studying life art at Barcelona’s Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc. This portrait of Nubiola is considered Miro’s finest work in portraiture and the greatest masterpiece of his early period when he experimented with a mixture of both Cubism and Fau...
Joan Miro was always linked with the rural world and the influence of country landscapes can be seen in several of his works. This painting is an abstract depiction of the landscape of Miro’s Catalan homeland. The Tilled Field was a radical departure from Miro’s earlier works and along with the Catalan Landscape it is his first major work to be cla...
May 1968 was a period of civil unrest in France marked by a series of student protests against capitalism, consumerism and traditional institutions. The period, which involved strikes by more than 22% of the population of France, is considered as a cultural, social and moral turning pointin the history of the country. Joan Miro, who sympathized wit...
Created in context of the Spanish Civil War, this masterpiece expresses Miro’s distress over the situation in Spain with its detailed depiction of the rise of evil, invasion by monsters and decline of the human figure. The objects in the picture, an old shoe, an apple impaled by a fork, etc. stand as tragic symbols of an ordinary person’s life. Con...
Among the most important artworks of Miro is a series of 23 small paintings known as the Constellations. Created after the outbreak of World War II, the element of escaping is prevalent in works of the series. The ladder was often used by Miro in his artworks and acted as a metaphor to put his works on a different plane, away from mundane realism. ...
Catalan Landscape and the Tilled Field are earliest two major works of Miro that are classified as surrealist. They employ the symbolic language that would be prevalent in his later works. In The Hunter, his Catalan peasant alter ego is captured simultaneously in the act of shooting a rabbit for his cooking pot and fishing for a sardine for his bar...
Marking his transition between figurative and abstract art, Blue Star is considered among the most important paintings in the career of Miro. The searing blue color he used in the painting could be seen in several of his future works and influenced later painters including Mark Rothko andYves Klein. In June 2012, Peinture (Etoile Bleue) was sold at...
Among Miro’s most famous artworks is the Triptych Blue I, II, III consisting of three enormous 355 cm x 270 cm paintings. All three paintings consist of simple lines and shapes on a dreamy blue background. In Blue II, Miro includes a dynamic red line on the left side of the painting in contrast to the serene blue background. The Bleu Triptych is co...
This painting depicts a merry making festival known as Mardi Gras, the celebration that begins the fasting of Lent and culminates on the day before Ash Wednesday. The titular character of the painting, Harlequin, is a person who puts on a disguise for fun, frequently plays the guitar and is usually the victim of unrequited love. Harlequin’s Carniva...
Joan Miro’s most famous painting, The Farm, shows the family’s country house in Mont-roig del Camp, Catalonia. Miro later said of the artwork, “I wanted to put everything I loved about the country in the canvas, from a huge tree to a tiny little snail.” Miro regarded The Farm as key to his artistic career describing it as “the summary of one period...
- Spanish
- April 20, 1893
- Barcelona, Spain
- December 25, 1983
- The Farm. A dramatically tilted picture plane presents a view of the artist's masia or "family farm," thronging with animals, farm implements, plants, and evidence of human activity.
- Harlequin's Carnival. This painting depicts a festive and crowded scene where quixotic biomorphs seem to be caught up in a lively celebration. Every form both evokes resemblances and refuses them, as at center left, the harlequin, identified by the black and white checks of the costume of the Italian commedia dell'arte's stock figure, has a body shaped like a distorted guitar.
- Dog Barking at the Moon. In a spare landscape that is both Surrealistic and humorously cartoonish, divided between rich chocolate earth and a black night sky, a whimsically distorted dog, depicted in bright colors, barks up at the moon above him.
- Dutch Interior (I) This painting is based on Hendrick Martensz Sorgh's Lute Player (1661), a Dutch Golden Age genre painting showing a domestic interior where a young man with a small dog at his feet serenades a young woman who seems unimpressed, as a cat looks out from under the table.
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- The Farm. 1921-1922. 123.2 cm × 122.3 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. “The Farm” stands as a testament to Miró’s skill to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
- Harlequin’s Carnival. 1924-1925. 66 cm × 92 cm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Step right up to “Harlequin’s Carnival,” Miró’s visual extravaganza that catapults us into the heart of a circus celebration.
- The Tilled Field. 1923-1924. 66 cm × 92 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. “The Tilled Field” is Miró’s experimental playground, painted between 1923 and 1924.
- The Hunter (Catalan Landscape) 1923-1924. 124 cm × 85 cm. Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. As we delve into “The Hunter,” completed between 1923 and 1924, Miró guides us through the rustic beauty of the Catalan landscape.
Constellation: Toward the Rainbow. In 1919, Joan Miró left his native country of Spain for France, where, along with fellow Spaniard Salvador Dalí, he became one of the pioneers of Surrealism.
Apr 11, 2019 · Between 1929 and 1938, Joan Miro presented a series of his works through free, confident brushstrokes, presented through flat colors as well as simple shapes.
- 20 th April 1893
- Joan Miró i Ferrà
- 25 th December 1983
- Spanish
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Apr 20, 1893 - Dec 25, 1983. Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona.
