A community portal about Joan Miro with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Joan Miro was a Catalan - Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His work has been interpreted as...
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A community portal about Joan Miro with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Joan Miro was a Catalan - Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan and Spanish pride. In numerous writings and interviews dating from the 1930s forward, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods and his desire to abandon them in favor of more contemporary means of expression.
Joan Miro Wine Label Oil Painting 10 x 12 inches Connoisseur Wine Masters Series I absolutely loved, loved, loved painting this wine label painting . Red is my favorite color so I am always my happiest when using it in my paintings. Joan Miro was such a free spirit and did not let the art world dictate to him on the way things should be done as far as, palettes colors and style. He remained free and painted many different styles. I admire this as this is also my very true feeling of being an... Read Full Story
Today I attended a lecture by Dr. Nancy Heller at the Philadelphia Museum of Art about Joan Miro. Dr. Heller was a great speaker - she shared alot of knowledge, slides of Miro's works and her wonderful sense of humor with us. Here is a recap of my notes plus some images I found on the internet: First, Joan Miro is a man, not a woman named "Joan." Miro is from the Catalan region of Spain and his first name is a variation of Juan or John. It is pronounced zhu (long u)-on (just like the word... Read Full Story
"Studying Miro" Inspired by Joan Miro 12" x 9" The smallest miniature painting in this paintings is 2" x 2" The largest miniature is 1.5" x 6" Art Museum Collection Series Miniature Paintings within Paintings Visiting with The Masters This was really different to paint. Miro had almost a child like way of executing his paintings. Commissions If you are interested in a personal Commission, something you would like to have painted just for you. Please email me with your interests. There is... Read Full Story
In 1927 Joan Miró declared, “I want to assassinate painting.” This exhibition illuminates the individual and intensely innovative character of Miró’s challenge to painting by focusing on twelve series of works the artist made over the course of a single, transformative decade. The compressed time period reveals the extensive range of Miró’s experimentation during these years, as he struggled not simply to negate painting but to reinvigorate and redefine his own art.
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MADRID - The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opened the exhibition Miró: Earth . It offers a totally innovative presentation of the work of Joan Miró that focuses on a recurrent concept in the artist’s work: the earth. For the first time this theme will be the subject of a major monographic exhibition covering Miró’s entire career from 1918, the year of his first solo exhibition, to his death in 1983. On view 17 June through 14 September, 2008.
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Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeoise society, and famously declared an “assassination of painting” in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. Read Full Story
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