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This picture was painted in Mont-roig del Camp in 1935 and was in the possession of Pilar Juncosa Miró, [6] but is now in the permanent collection of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Pilar Juncosa had been Miró's wife since 1929 and she was a supporter of his Foundation. This painting is kept in the Pilar Juncosa Gallery at his ...
Margit Rowell, Joan Miró: Selected Writing & Interviews, Da Capo Press Inc; New edition (1 August 1992) ISBN 978-0-306-80485-4; Joan Miró and Robert Lubar (preface), Joan Miró: I Work Like a Gardener, Princeton Architectural Press, Hudson, NY, 2017. Reprint of 1964 limited edition. ISBN 978-1-616-89628-7; Josep Massot Joan Miró.
The objects chosen by Miro are deliberately poor and humble, tied to ordinary people's life: an old shoe, a little of food, some things found in any kitchen. They stand as a tragic symbol. Its huge size become a threat, [ 7 ] reinforced by the contrast of colours and the ghostly light, which sometimes seem to emanate from the objects. [ 8 ]
Traditional accounts indicate that Joan Miró was dividing his time between Paris and his homeland, in Montroig and Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in the early 1930s.With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he remained in Paris in self-exile with his wife Pilar and daughter Dolores (b. 1931).
The pictures were a reaction to the Spanish Civil War, which was being waged at the time they were created. Even prior to the war, Miró had painted figures which expressed the pain of the forthcoming conflict in his Wild Paintings , such as in Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement . [ 2 ]
Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman (Catalan: Xifrats i constellacions, en l'amor amb una dona) is a painting by Joan Miró created in 1941. The medium is gouache, watercolor, and graphite on paper, and the work's dimensions are 46 cm × 38 cm (18 in × 15 in).
Joan Miró. Arquitectura d'un llibre: Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona [23] 25 October 2007 27 January 2008 Joan Miró. 1956–1983 Sentiment, emoció i gest: Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona [24] 14 April 2011 11 September 2011 Miró. Tate: London [25] 15 October 2011 18 March 2011 Miró i l'escala de l'evasió. Tate, Fundació Joan Miró: London ...
Intending to come to the dedication of the mural in 1978, [5] he fell at his studio in Palma (Majorca, Spain), and was unable to travel to the event. The entire south wall of the Ulrich Museum is the foundation for the 28 ft by 52 ft (8.53 m x 15.85 m) mural, composed of one million pieces of marble and Venetian glass mounted on specially ...