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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 ...
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 ]
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 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).
She was born in Palma de Mallorca on 17 July 1930, as the only children of the painter Joan Miró and his wife Pilar Juncosa Iglesias (1904-1995). She was the honorary president and ex officio member of the boards of trustees of the Fundació Joan Miró , in Barcelona , and the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca .
The Birth of the World is an oil painting by the Catalonian-Spanish artist Joan Miró, from 1925.It is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. [1] [2] In 2019 the MOMA organized an eponymous exhibition of Miro's works curated around and including the canvas to offer a comparison between other major pieces by the artist and this seminal canvas.
The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca (English: Pilar and Joan Miró Mallorca Foundation) is a museum in Palma de Mallorca, dedicated to the work of the artist Joan Miró. It comprises a main building exhibiting 6000 works donated by the artist, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, sketches, a library, a sculpture garden, and Miró ...