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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 ]
Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso) is an oil on canvas painting by Joan Miró, created between 1966 and 1973. [1] It has been in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid, since 1988. The painting was finished on the day of the death of Picasso, and so Miró decided to dedicate it to him. [2]
Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Joan of Arc movie has been in the works for decades. “This is something he’s talked about for 30 years,” his wife and creative partner Catherine Martin told me ...
Dona i Ocell (Catalan: [ˈdɔ.nə i uˈseʎ], "Woman and Bird") is a 22-metre high sculpture by Joan Miró located in the Parc de Joan Miró park, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The sculpture was covered in tiles by the artist's collaborator Joan Gardy Artigas. [2]