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Joan Miró i Ferrà (/ m ɪ ˈ r oʊ / mi-ROH, [1] US also / m iː ˈ r oʊ / mee-ROH; [2] [3] Catalan: [ʒuˈan miˈɾoj fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist.
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 Harlequin's Carnival (Spanish: Carnaval de Arlequín) is an oil painting painted by Joan Miró between 1924 and 1925. It is one of the most outstanding surrealist paintings of the artist, and it is preserved in the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
Head of a Catalan Peasant is an emblematic sequence of oil paintings and pencil made by Joan Miró between 1924 and 1925. Miró began this series the same year that André Breton published his Manifesto of Surrealism.
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 ]
Joan Miró. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 484 pp. ISBN 0-8109-6123-7; Orozco, Miguel (2018) The True Story of Joan Miró and his Constellations. 261 pp. (accessed January 27, 2021) Rowell, Margit and Mildred Glimcher (2017). Miro and Calder's Constellations.
Joan Miró and Josep Llorens Artigas met in 1910 at the school of art of the artist Francesc Galí (1880–1965), in Barcelona. Since the 1940s, Miró and Josep Llorens Artigas started an artistic duo that spawned objects and large ceramic murals such as one at the Unesco building in Paris or the ceramic wall of the Barcelona Airport.
The Farm is an oil painting made by Joan Miró between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp and winter 1922 in Paris. [1] It is a kind of inventory of the masia (traditional Catalan farmhouse) owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp.