Joan Miró

Selected Works

Joan Miró
Untitled, 1937
Pencil on stained paper
106 x 75 cm
Signed lower center
Signed and dated on the back

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Biography

Joan Miró (1893–1983), is a Spanish artist linked to the Surrealist movement, through his work marked by free lyrical abstraction. He wishes to “kill” the codes of classical painting in order to completely free himself. Miró essentially paints dreamlike themes which bring together a pictorial language emerging from his unconscious and consisting mainly of stars, comets, birds and women.

Joan Miró (1893–1983), is a Spanish artist linked to the Surrealist movement, through his work marked by free lyrical abstraction and the frequent use of automatic writing created by Robert Desnos and André Breton.

From 1920, he frequented the Surrealist group in Paris and became very close to Pablo Picasso. He stands out for his use of bright colors inspired by the Post-Impressionist Fauves that he discovered during his training. But it is mainly blue that predominates, a color that he describes as mysterious and immaterial.

His objective is to “kill” the codes of classical painting in order to completely free himself.
Miró essentially paints dreamlike themes which bring together a pictorial language emerging from his unconscious and consisting mainly of stars, comets, birds and women.

In 1930, his first exhibition in the United States brought him great success. It was at this moment that he broke away from the Surrealists to find his own figurative and abstract language. The Museum Of Modern Art thus carried out a retrospective in his name in 1941, at the time when his painting became monumental and marked by the use of new techniques, such as sculpture or engraving.

The 1960s marked the creation of its foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence with the association of the Maeght couple. He decorated the garden and created “The Labyrinth”, which includes monumental works. Miró participates in numerous projects between Europe and the United States, allowing him to be highly celebrated and rewarded. At the end of his life, in 1975, the
“Catalan international” donated a large part of his work to the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona.

Bibliography

Miró, catalogue de l’exposition du Centre Pompidou, Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2004. Miró, catalogue de la collection du Centre Pompidou, Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1999. Joan Miró, Ecrits et entretiens, présentés par Margit Rowell, Daniel Lelong éditeur, Paris, 1995. Jacques Dupin, Miró, Flammarion, 1961, nouvelle édition revue et mise à jour en 1993. Yves Bonnefoy, Miró, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1964.