Author: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Joan Miró
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Taking Joan Miró'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 Miró the "anti-painter," identifying the core practices and strategies the artist used to challenge painting between 1927 and 1937. Joan Miró Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 surveys the various material, iconographical and rhetorical forms of Miró's attacks on painting by presenting, in chronological sequence, 12 distinct series of works, beginning with a remarkable group of paintings on unprimed canvas and concluding with Miró's return to Realism in "Still Life with Old Shoe" (1937). Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, stylistic heterogeneity and the use of resistant, ready-made materials are among the key tactics of aggression that are explored in this extraordinary presentation of the interrelated and oppositional series of paintings, collages, objects and drawings Miró produced during this crucial decade of his long career. This volume integrates close scrutiny of Miró's materials and processes with historical and iconographic analysis, leading to an expanded understanding of the underappreciated aggressiveness of an artist long regarded as Surrealism's most lyrical painter-poet. Joan Miró was born in 1893 in Barcelona. After his first trip to Paris in 1920, and through 1931, Miró generally spent half of each year in the French capitol and half in his native Catalonia, returning to live in France after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. One of the twentieth century's greatest Modern artists, Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. He died in 1983 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Author: Jacques Dupin
Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Considered one of the great artist of the 20th century, Joan Miro has bequeathed us a definitive body of work whose influence has continued to grow over the years. Miro did not paint dreams but instead , through his works, provided the spectator with certain elements so that he would be the one that dreamed. He never worked under the influence of hypnosis, drugs or alcohol. Nevertheless, his artistic personality and the way he represented on canvas what inspiration dictated to him led André Breton to exclaim: Miro is the most surrealist of us all!!. A creative force in the plastic field who felt an equal passion for the word, for the most daring poetic plays, a lover of objects and the bare truth of materials, Miro always revealed himself as an oneiric artist, a seeeker after the constellations that inspired some of his finest works. Jacques Dupin the main authority in Miro work details all those items in his amazing essay: The Birth of Signs. 72 illustrations

Author: Joan Miró
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ISBN: 9780500600122
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Joan Miró
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ISBN: 9780500093672
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A superbly illustrated, retrospective survey that focuses on Miró's politically engaged art, published to accompany a major touring exhibition.

Author: Margit Rowell
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Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Author: Carolyn Lanchner
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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"Joan Miro, one of the twentieth century's greatest artists and perhaps the finest painter to be associated with Surrealism, created a pictorial world of immense imaginative power. This book features ten paintings and sculptures by Miro selected from The Museum of Modern Art's substantial collection of his work. Miro's radical "dream" paintings, his Imaginary Landscapes, and his Constellations series are represented, as are his "attacks" on Old Master paintings and his unprecedented works made in response to the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War. A lively essay by Carolyn Lanchner accompanies each work, illuminating its significance and placing it in its historical moment in the development of modern art and in Miro's own life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Joan Mir¢
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486244377
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Forty important lithographic prints with line and composition comparable to the works of Miro's friend Picasso. Eerie, droll, technically brilliant, and aggressive.