Miro, Joan
Died: 1983 AD, at 90 years of age.
Nationality: Spanish
Categories: Artists, Painters
1893 - Born in Barcelona, Spain on the 20th of April.
1915-1919 - He worked in Barcelona, at Montroig, and on Majorca, painting landscapes, portraits, and nudes in which his interest centred on the rhythmic interplay of volumes and areas of colour.
1919 - He lived alternately in Spain and Paris.
1925-1928 - He painted “dream pictures” and “imaginary landscapes” in which the linear configurations and patches of colour look almost as though they were set down randomly.
1930 - He artistic horizons were expanding. He designed decor for ballets.
1934 - He designed tapestries, and that led to an interest in the monumental and in murals.
1930 - He was living in Paris. In their demonic expressiveness, his pictures of this period mirrored the fears and horrors of those years.
1937 - He painted for the pavilion of the Spanish Republic a mural, “The Reaper,” containing a strong element of social criticism.
1948 - He once more divided his time between Spain and Paris.
1950 - He painted a wall for Harvard University.
1958 - Received the Great International Prize of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
1962 - Paris honoured him with the first major exhibition of his collected works in the National Museum of Modern Art.
1980 - His receipt of Spain's Gold Medal of Fine Arts, a plaza in Madrid was named in Miró's honour.
1983 - Died in Palma, Majorca, Spain on the 25th of December.
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André Breton: Surrealism and Painting by Andre Breton and Alain Masson and Joan Miro and Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp and Rene Magritte and Pablo Picasso and Yves Tanguy and Francis Picabia and Max Ernst and André Breton (Paperback - Oct 15, 2002) Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Miro by Jacques Dupin and Joan Miro (Hardcover - Mar 5, 1994) |
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Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 by Jim Coddington and Robert Lubar and Jordana Mendelson and Adele Nelson and Joan Miro (Hardcover - Nov 1, 2008) Taking Joan Miro's notorious declaration of 1927--"I want to assassinate painting"--as its point of departure, this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Miro the "anti-painter,"... Not yet published |
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