Joan Miró

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Joan Miró, Graphisme Concret, 1951

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Known as an innovator in the Surrealist movement, Joan Miró was a highly creative and free-thinking individual who refused to adhere to the norms of conventional painting methods which he felt assassinated art by curbing the artist’s imagination and freedom.

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Works

Joan Miró
Untitled, c.1981
oil, wax, crayon and pencil on paper
70 x 105 cm
27 1/2 x 41 3/8 in
framed : 96 x 130.2 x 2.4 cm
Joan Miró
Ubu Roi, c. 1953
acrylic, ink, and crayon collage on paper
32.5 x 50 cm
12 3/4 x 19 3/4 in
framed: 51 x 69 x 2.8 cm
Joan Miró
Femmes, oiseau, 1978
India ink on paper and wax pencil on Madagascar paper
91 x 52 cm
35 83/100 x 20 47/100 in
framed : 113,3 x 75 cm
Joan Miró
Personnage, oiseau, étoile, 1977
Chinese ink, wax crayon, and crayon on paper
47 x 58 cm
18 1/2 x 22 7/8 in
framed: 69.5 x 81 x 4 cm
Joan Miró
Tête, oiseau, 1973/1989
bronze
Fundicio Parellada, Barcelona
63 x 40 x 19 cm
24 4/5 x 15 3/4 x 7 24/50 in
Joan Miró
Femme et oiseaux, 1972
bronze
154 x 88 x 50 cm
60 63/100 x 34 13/20 x 19 69/100 in
Joan Miró
Le Pèlerin, 1972
bronze
57 x 23 x 22 cm
22 22/50 x 9 3/50 x 8 33/50 in
Joan Miró
Femmes et Oiseaux, 1967
oil on kraft paper mounted on canvas
91.5 x 74 cm
36 1/50 x 29 13/100 inches
framed: 99 x 82 x 7 cm
Joan Miró
Femmes dans la nuit, 1963
India ink on wax crayon on scratched paper
70 x 100 cm
27 28/50 x 39 37/100 in
framed : 84 x 115 x 4,5 cm
Joan Miró
Untitled, 1960
Pastel crayon, pastel, and collage of matchsticks on black paper
33 x 50 cm
13 x 19 3/4 in
framed: 55.5 x 73 x 2.5 cm
Joan Miró
Jeune fille au long cou, 1956-1981
bronze
Fonderia Artistica Bonvicini, Verona
63.5 x 13 x 26 cm
25 x 5 6/50 x 10 12/50 in
Joan Miró
Personnage, 1949
oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm
13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in
framed : 60 x 52,6 x 7,5 cm
Joan Miró
Untitled, 1949
ink, charcoal and pastel on paper
63.2 x 47 cm
24 44/50 x 18 1/2 in
framed : 81 x 64,5 x 2,5 cm
Joan Miró
Untitled, 1949
Chinese ink wash on cut paper
59.6 x 38.7 cm
23 1/2 x 15 1/4 in
framed: 78 x 58.5 x 2.5 cm

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Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress

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My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

The Spanish artist Joan Miró is regarded as an innovator in the Surrealist movement, rendering the subconscious and bringing it to life in an abstract style that is instantly recognizable. This concept would later inspire Abstract Expressionists in the early 20th century. Often driven by interior emotions, spontaneity and gesture inform his works, resulting in less calculated, 'freer' works. Working in a limited color palette, Miró worked across sculpture, ceramics, works on paper, and painting.

Miró was born April 20, 1893 in Barcelona. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La...