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 Miró, Joan (1893 - 1983)
Spain

Et les Seins Mouraient...., 1927

Indian ink on cardboard;
47 x 62 cm
Surrealism

UID 102-384



Biography

Spanish painter, sculptor, designer and decorator. Although he was never really a member of any artistic movement, Miró distinguished himself, as Picasso did, by the formal and technical innovations he introduced to 20th century art. In 1907, he began his artistic apprenticeship in Barcelona at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de La Lonja and, in 1912, he moved on to another school run by Francisco Gali, where he concentrated on the study of the Impressionists and Fauvists. His first paintings date from this period. In 1918, he was one of the first members of the Courbet group, an association of artists founded by Josep Artigas and students from the Circulo Artistico de Sant Lluc and he had his first one-man show at the Llu’s Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona. This was not very successful and led him to reconsider his methods, particularly after 1920. In the following year, he held another exhibition at the La Licorne Gallery, in Paris, where he didn't sell a single picture. Although he strove to avoid it, Miró was influenced by some movements during the 20s, namely Dadaism and Surrealism. In 1925, the Pierre Gallery in Paris exhibited Miró's work once again individually and together with works by Picasso and Paul Klee. Between 1929 and 1931 he sought to break all existing conventions, using collage technique, in which he incorporated rather unusual objects. Between 1934 and 1936, he produced a new series of Wild Paintings that showed the violence which he had, up until then, controlled. Aggression, sexuality and drama took on human form, deformed and grotesque, blistering on strange surfaces and materials. The first two years of the 40s marked the end of the Abstract influences on his work. 1941 saw the first major retrospective on Miró's work at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which was extremely important for him, in terms of international recognition. In 1946, he exhibited at the Maeght Gallery, in Paris and produced numerous prints, lithographs and ceramics. In the 50s, he began to concentrate on sculpture and his creations in the various areas were characterised by the simultaneous presence of two distinct approaches: one of careful, thoughtful production, whilst the other was extremely spontaneous. In the 60s, there was a great change in Miró's work: it became dramatic, almost tragic with colour being almost suppressed by the weight of the black. In the final years of his career, he continued to experiment with new techniques, namely in the illustration of books and posters. It was in this period that he was awarded the Guggenheim Foundation Grand Prix (1963). After 1966, Miró worked intensely on sculptures based, mainly, on small objects he brought together in diverse and surprising ways. Stones, branches and other objects that he found during his walks along the beach were united in a manner which still has something of the Surrealist but, at the same time, showed his need to be in contact with nature and simple things.



Exhibitions

Joan Miro
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Italy
01-01-1985 ~ 31-12-1985

Poésure et Peintrie - D'un Art, L'autre
Centre de la Vieille Charité, France
01-01-1993 ~ 31-12-1993

O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho
Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal
12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003

Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004

Um paseo por la vanguardia española. Instantánea de Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Museo Historíco Provincial "Doctor Julio Marc", Argentina
17-11-2004 ~ 20-02-2005

Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006

Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001

Aquisições Recentes da Colecção Berardo
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
17-05-1998 ~ 04-04-1999

Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000

O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001

Joan Miró: Snail Woman Flower Star
Museum Kunst Palast, Germany
13-07-2002 ~ 06-10-2002

Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000

Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo - Colecção Berardo
Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal
08-07-2006 ~ 31-01-2007

Berardo Museum Opening
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008

De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris
Musée du Luxembourg, France
16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009

“Theater of the Dream” from Magritte to Felini
Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Italy
25-09-2010 ~ 09-01-2011

Sous la Dictée de L’image
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
01-03-2010 ~ 26-05-2010

Tudo o que é Sólido
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010


Bibliography

Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 972817652X

Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 9728176856

Fernando Lemos and Surrealism , 2005
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729903026

Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo – Colecção Berardo, 2006
Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas
ISBN 9728902034

Joan Miró, 1985
Published by Palazzo Dei Diamanti - La Fondatión Joan Miró

Joan Miró: Snail Woman Flower Star, 2002
Published by Prestel

O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729742847

O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003
Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira
ISBN 9728705050

Poésure et Peintrie – D'un Art, l'Autre, 1993
Published by Centre de la Vieille Charité







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