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In 1993, the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, several exhibitions were held, among which the most prominent were those held in the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the Galerie Lelong, Paris. [59]
Date of birth/death: 20 April 1893 : 25 December 1983 : Location of birth/death: Barcelona : Palma : Work period: 1915 –1983 : ... Joan Miro; Usage on ba.wikipedia.org
The Birth of the World is an oil painting by the Catalonian-Spanish artist Joan Miró, from 1925.It is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. [1] [2] In 2019 the MOMA organized an eponymous exhibition of Miro's works curated around and including the canvas to offer a comparison between other major pieces by the artist and this seminal canvas.
The objects chosen by Miro are deliberately poor and humble, tied to ordinary people's life: an old shoe, a little of food, some things found in any kitchen. They stand as a tragic symbol. Its huge size become a threat, [ 7 ] reinforced by the contrast of colours and the ghostly light, which sometimes seem to emanate from the objects. [ 8 ]
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Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso) is an oil on canvas painting by Joan Miró, created between 1966 and 1973. [1] It has been in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid, since 1988. The painting was finished on the day of the death of Picasso, and so Miró decided to dedicate it to him. [2]
Joan Scott, the founder and president of the talent and literary agency Writers and Artists, died of natural causes on Thursday, August 4 at her home in New York City. She was 98. Scott was ...