Political changes in his native country led in 1978 to the first full exhibition of his painting and graphic work, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. [67] Later that year at Sotheby's in London, Peinture (Etoile Bleue) (1927) brought nearly 23.6 million pounds with fees, more than twice what it had sold for at a Paris auction in 2007 and a record price for the artist at auction. Generally thought of as a Surrealist because of his interest in automatism and the use of sexual symbols (for example, ovoids with wavy lines emanating from them), Miró's style was influenced in varying degrees by Surrealism and Dada,[18] yet he rejected membership in any artistic movement in the interwar European years. He then worked for two years as a clerk in an office until he had a mental and physical breakdown. The French National Museum of Art conducted a major retrospective of Joan Miró's art in 1962. Among his later works were several monumental sculptures, such as those he executed for the city of Chicago (unveiled 1981) and for the city of Houston (1982). He developed a close relationship with Fernand Mourlot and that resulted in the production of over one thousand different lithographic editions. [42] From the summer of 1923 in Mont-roig, Miró began a key set of paintings where abstracted pictorial signs, rather than the realistic representations used in The Farm, are predominant. He worked extensively in lithography and produced numerous murals, tapestries, and sculptures for public spaces. In the early 1920s Miró combined meticulously detailed realism with abstraction in landscapes such as the renowned Farm (1921) and The Tilled Field (1923–24). and influenced recent painters such as Julian Hatton.[61]. Miró was born in Barcelona, Spain, as the son of a goldsmith and jewelry maker. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Robin Adele Greeley, Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War. The resemblance of Miró's work to that of the intermediate generation of the avant-garde has led scholars to dub this period his Catalan Fauvist period. His ceramic experiments culminated in the two great ceramic walls in the UNESCO building in Paris (1958), for which he received the Great International Prize of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Miró married Pilar Juncosa in 1929, and a year later they had a daughter, Maria Dolors Miró, who was named after his mother and sister. The culmination of this style was The Farm (1921–22). From 1919 onward Miró lived alternately in Spain and Paris. Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan: [ʒuˈan miˈɾo]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. Miró created a series of sculptures and ceramics for the garden of the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, which was completed in 1964. Buscando se convalescer, passou um longo período na casa da família na aldeia de Mont-Roig del Camp. These simple collages, were like a conceptual counterpoint to his paintings. Once the war began, he was unable to return home. Snail Woman Flower Star, Stiftung museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, 2002, no. The already symbolic and poetic nature of Miró's work, as well as the dualities and contradictions inherent to it, fit well within the context of dream-like automatism espoused by the group. Other notable pieces included Painting (1933) and Mural Painting (1951). According to his parents’ wishes, he attended a commercial college. Em 1912, seus pais consentiram que ele retornasse aos estudos. Picasso was friendly towards him and supllied him with some introductions. Beginning in 1948, Miró once again divided his time between Spain and Paris. [6][13][14][15], Miró initially went to business school as well as art school. His mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life. The maquette now resides in the Milwaukee Art Museum. In 1939, with Germany's invasion of France looming, Miró relocated to Varengeville in Normandy, and on 20 May of the following year, as Germans invaded Paris, he narrowly fled to Spain (now controlled by Francisco Franco) for the duration of the Vichy Regime's rule. Dalmau organized Miró’s first solo show in Paris, at the Galerie la Licorne in 1921 and his work was included in the Salon d’Automne of 1923. The exhibit features 60-foot canvasses as well as smaller 8-foot paintings, and the influences range from cubism to abstraction. … Omissions? 1893 - 1983. These works show the influence of Cézanne, and fill the canvas with a colorful surface and a more painterly treatment than the hard-edge style of most of his later works. 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. He also made temporary window paintings (on glass) for an exhibit. For other uses, see, Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, Victoria Combalia, "Miró's Strategies: Rebellious in Barcelona, Reticent in Paris", from Joan Miró: Snail Woman Flower Star, Prestel 2008. Despite the Surrealist automatic techniques that he employed extensively in the 1920s, sketches show that his work was often the result of a methodical process. Although he typically was not political in his work, the turmoil in his native country inspired him to embrace social criticism. Much of Miró's work lost the cluttered chaotic lack of focus that had defined his work thus far, and he experimented with collage and the process of painting within his work so as to reject the framing that traditional painting provided. Jacques Lassaigne, Miró: biographical and critical study. Following graduation, Miro struggled to find recognition for his art in Barcelona. (New Haven: Yale University press, 2006) pp. He wanted to portray nature as it would be depicted by a primitive person or a child equipped with the intelligence of a 20th-century adult; in this respect, he had much in common with the Surrealists and Dadaists, two schools of modern artists who were striving to achieve similar aims by more intellectual means than those used by Miró. From Aste Boetto, Joan Miró, Arphila 75 Paris. 24–25. The Influence of Paris. "Les Fusains": 22, rue Tourlaque, 18th arrondissement of Paris where Miró settled in 1927. $29.95 shipping. In 1948–49 Miró lived in Barcelona and made frequent visits to Paris to work on printing techniques at the Mourlot Studios and the Atelier Lacourière. In the last years of his life Miró wrote his most radical and least known ideas, exploring the possibilities of gas sculpture and four-dimensional painting. He gradually removed the objects he portrayed from their natural context and reassembled them as if in accordance with a new, mysterious grammar, creating a ghostly, eerie impression. Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma, 1983) Joan Miró was born in Barcelona in 1893, but the emotional landscapes that shaped him as a person and an artist were principally those of Mont-roig, Paris, and Majorca, and later those of New York and Japan. Joan Miró Spanish William S. Lieberman was a prolific and active art collector with a particular passion for works on paper. 130 by 97.2cm., 51⅛ by 38¼in. [28][29], Until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Miró habitually returned to Spain in the summers. In his work he reflected his interest in the subconsciousness and his country. Updates? Miró crée à partir de ses rêves et nous ouvre les portes de son univers poétique. [12] Inspired by Fauve and Cubist exhibitions in Barcelona and abroad, Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, but continued to spend his summers in Catalonia. His early modernist works include Portrait of Vincent Nubiola (1917), Siurana (the path), Nord-Sud (1917) and Painting of Toledo. He was commissioned to paint a number of murals, notably for the Terrace Hilton Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio (1947), and for Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1950). His paintings began to be exhibited regularly in French and American galleries. Before becoming chairman of what is now called the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met, he was a print curator at the Museum of Modern Art. $145.00. Joan Miró i Ferrà (/mɪˈroʊ/ mi-ROH,[1] also US: /miːˈroʊ/ mee-ROH,[2][3] Catalan: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo j fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. Two of Miró's first works classified as Surrealist, Catalan Landscape (The Hunter) and The Tilled Field,[21] employ the symbolic language that was to dominate the art of the next decade. Stuart Gilbert. That year he began a series of very poetic works based on the combined themes of woman, bird, and star. His art had developed slowly from his first clumsy attempts at expression to the apparently playful masterpieces of his later period. His difficult to classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. 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