About Joan Miró
Spanish · 1893–1983 · Surrealism
Wanted to murder painting, spent sixty years making paintings instead, and was called the most Surrealist of all by Breton.
Read full biography →Joan Miró's works are held in 32 museums worldwide, including National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and Fundació Joan Miró.
🇦🇹 Austria
2 museums
Also in AustriaBatliner Collection (3)Albertina (3)
Joan Miró prints
Hand-finished archival prints from Joan Miró's body of work.
🇨🇦 Canada
1 museum
Also in Canadacollection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (6)
🇫🇷 France
2 museums
Also in FranceMusée National d'Art Moderne (14)Fondation Maeght (3)
🇩🇪 Germany
1 museum
Also in GermanyNeue Nationalgalerie (6)
🇮🇱 Israel
1 museum
Also in IsraelIsrael Museum (8)
🇮🇹 Italy
1 museum
Also in ItalyPeggy Guggenheim Collection (3)
🇳🇱 Netherlands
1 museum
Also in NetherlandsMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen (5)
🇪🇸 Spain
3 museums
Also in SpainMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (112)Fundació Joan Miró (51)Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (5)
🇸🇪 Sweden
1 museum
Also in SwedenModerna Museet (2)
🇨🇭 Switzerland
2 museums
Also in SwitzerlandKunsthaus Zürich (7)Beyeler Foundation (6)
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
2 museums
Also in United KingdomTate (6)National Galleries Scotland (5)
🇺🇸 United States
15 museums
Also in United StatesNational Gallery of Art (523)Museum of Modern Art (26)Vanderbilt Museum of Art (19)Metropolitan Museum of Art (17)Philadelphia Museum of Art (13)Art Institute of Chicago (10)Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (7)Harvard Art Museums (6)Fogg Museum (6)Buffalo AKG Art Museum (4)Yale University Art Gallery (3)Barnes Foundation (3)Toledo Museum of Art (3)Detroit Institute of Arts (2)Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (2)
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When did joan miro became famous?
Joan Miró Ferra was born in Barcelona on April 20, 1893. At the age of fourteen he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja, the academy of fine arts in the same city.Why is joan miro famous?
Joan Miró was the best pure painter among the Surrealists. His art is a free, lyrical mixture of folk tales, eroticism, sardonic humour, farmhouse scat-talk, and grotesque absurdity.Is joan miro abstract?
The relationship between Joan Miró's painting and nature has not been clarified. Some painters do not want their abstract paintings to suggest a literal scene.Was joan miro a surrealist?
Joan Miró fell in with the Surrealists in Paris in 1920. André Breton called him 'the most Surrealist of us all'.Joan miro artwork style?
Joan Miró's style drew on automatism. He also invented a vocabulary of signs and symbols to free the unconscious mind.What was joan miro art style?
Joan Miró developed a style that sprang from his own feelings, drawing on automatism. Closely associated with Surrealism, Joan Miró i Ferrà invented a vocabulary of signs and symbols to free the unconscious mind.Joan miro paintings style?
In 1925, Joan Miró's work took a decisive turn, stimulated by hunger-induced hallucinations involving his impressions of poetry. These resulted in the artist's 'dream paintings'.
Sources
Where to See guide aggregates verified holdings of Joan Miró's works across the following collections.
- [1] book guggenheim-guhe00solo Used for: biography.
- [2] book guggenheim-handboo00pegg Used for: biography.
- [3] book Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, 1980 Used for: biography.
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