What nationality was the painter Joan Miro?
"$26.6 million. Later that year at Sotheby's in London, ""Peinture (Etoile Bleue)"" (1927) brought nearly 23.6 million pounds with fees, more than twice what it had sold for at a Paris auction in 2007 and a record price for the artist at auction. On 21 June 2017, the work ""Femme et Oiseaux"" (1940), one of his ""Constellations"", sold at Sotheby's London for 24,571,250 GBP. Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà (; ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was"
"Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà (; ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards,"
"find that Spain looks like the dying dictatorship of General Franco. At the same time there is a Joan Miró fully recognized and also is filled with skills to find creative new ways. Miró had visited the Japan, where there had been several exhibitions. Orientalism always represented by a spring of Miró received influences. Miró has been defined as an ""international Catalan"", which had an internal exile because of Franco, a political artist, surrealist avant-garde and modernist. Miró himself says that the artist is a ""person with a special civic responsibility, your voice must speak for the silent, and his"
"with his time and his country. Joan Miró was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. He created a Surrealist language of symbols following his own imagined fantasies and the use of bright colours. His life and work are intertwined with the history of Spain and Catalonia in the twentieth century. The exhibition looks at the artist's life in chronological order starting with Joan Miró's links with his home in Mont-roig del Camp and his initial contact with the surrealist poets and painters. Early works include ""The Farm"" and ""Head of a Catalan Peasant"". His 1926 work"
"special persecution by the Franco regime. Also, Joan Miró was well aware of Haitian Voodoo art and Cuban Santería religion through his travels before going into exile. This led to his signature style of art making. Joan Miró was among the first artists to develop automatic drawing as a way to undo previous established techniques in painting, and thus, with André Masson, represented the beginning of Surrealism as an art movement. However, Miró chose not to become an official member of the Surrealists in order to be free to experiment with other artistic styles without compromising his position within the"
"The Reaper (Miró painting) The Reaper (""El segador""), also known as ""Catalan peasant in revolt"" (""El campesino catalán en rebeldía"") was a large mural created by Joan Miró in Paris in 1937 for the Spanish Republic’s pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition that year. It was one of his largest works, high, but was destroyed or lost in 1938. Only a few black and white photographs survive. Miró moved with his family to Paris in 1936 to escape the Spanish Civil War. Until 1937 Miró had maintained a mostly apolitical stance, but he had Republican sympathies, and the mural was"
"Victoria Miro Victoria Marion Miro (born 1 July 1945) is a British art dealer, ""one of the grandes dames of the Britart scene"" and founder of the Victoria Miro Galleries in London and Venice. Miro was born into a Jewish working-class family in London. Her father ran a Covent Garden grocery stall. Her parents were keen on culture and saved, so the family could take holidays in Italy to see the art there. She went to school at Copthall grammar school in North London, then studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, which she says helped her understand"
"Catalonia (Spain) to south western Germany. The wall has become discoloured from pollution and has not been cleaned because of the high cost. Miró Wall The Miró Wall is a ceramic tiled wall designed by Spanish artist Joan Miró for the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The wall, which comprises 7,200 tiles, is wide and high. The elements in the mural are colorful and fanciful creatures. The mural was produced by Joan Gardy Artigas. He created the 7,200 tiles based on a design by Miró involving surreal figures and animals. Artigas had to work from an image which Miró"
"Anton Mirou Antoine, or Anton Mirou (1578, – 1621/1627), was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter of the Frankenthal school. He is known for his wooded and rocky landscapes and landscapes with populated villages. He was also a topographical draftsman whose views were widely disseminated through prints. Anton Mirou was born in Antwerp where he was baptized baptized on 4 May 1578 in the Cathedral of Our Lady. His family must have been Protestant as they left Antwerp in 1586 after the Fall of Antwerp. The family moved to Frankenthal where a younger brother was born. Mirou made in 1602 a"
"Joaquin Mir Trinxet Joaquin Mir Trinxet or Joaquin Mir y Trinxet (Catalan: ""Joaquim Mir i Trinxet"") (Barcelona 6 January 1873 – 1940) was a Spanish artist known for his use of color in his paintings. He lived through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona. His paintings helped to define the Catalan art movement known as ""modernisme"". Mir Trinxet was born in Barcelona to a well-off Catalan family. His father was representative of foreign firms, some of them from Nuremberg Mir studied at the Llotja before joining the Colla del Safrà group with Canals, Nonell, and Pichot."
"Victoria Miro Mayfair. In May 2017 she opened a third gallery Victoria Miro Venice. Victoria Miro Victoria Marion Miro (born 1 July 1945) is a British art dealer, ""one of the grandes dames of the Britart scene"" and founder of the Victoria Miro Galleries in London and Venice. Miro was born into a Jewish working-class family in London. Her father ran a Covent Garden grocery stall. Her parents were keen on culture and saved, so the family could take holidays in Italy to see the art there. She went to school at Copthall grammar school in North London, then studied"
"Miró Wall The Miró Wall is a ceramic tiled wall designed by Spanish artist Joan Miró for the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The wall, which comprises 7,200 tiles, is wide and high. The elements in the mural are colorful and fanciful creatures. The mural was produced by Joan Gardy Artigas. He created the 7,200 tiles based on a design by Miró involving surreal figures and animals. Artigas had to work from an image which Miró had created at one-tenth the scale of the finished wall. Using that model, he marked out each section on an individual tile. The"
"Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an ""assassination of painting"" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. Born into a family of a goldsmith and a watchmaker, Miró grew up in the Barri Gòtic neighborhood of Barcelona. The ""Miró"" surname indicates Jewish roots (the terms marrano or converso describe Iberian Jews who converted to Christianity). His father was Miquel Miró Adzerias and his mother was Dolors Ferrà. He began drawing classes at the age of seven at a private school at Carrer del Regomir 13, a medieval"
"a politically charged meaning. In 1939, with Germany’s invasion of France looming, Miró relocated to Varengeville in Normandy, and on 20 May of the following year, as Germans invaded Paris, he narrowly fled to Spain (now controlled by Francisco Franco) for the duration of the Vichy Regime’s rule. In Varengeville, Palma, and Mont-roig, between 1940 and 1941, Miró created the twenty-three gouache series ""Constellations"". Revolving around celestial symbolism, ""Constellations"" earned the artist praise from André Breton, who seventeen years later wrote a series of poems, named after and inspired by Miró's series. Features of this work revealed a shifting focus"
"were European Art Nouveau objects, artworks, posters, and buildings. The project was done to make all of the items available for access through Europeana. Terraced Village Terraced Village is a painting by Joaquim Mir currently exhibited at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. Joaquim Mir was a Catalan Spanish artist that is known for his impressionist and modern pieces. When he began painting, his first periods of works were regarding social issues although he is known best for his later works, which were mostly landscapes. For a time he received help from his uncle in exchange for works. He made"
"Miró otro Miró otro, originally spelled backwards as ""Orim"", was a retrospective of the Catalan painter Joan Miró's work organized by Official College of Architects of Catalonia (COAC) at its headquarters in Barcelona during April–June 1969. One of the most important and transgressors of this exhibit was the art intervention made by the artist and collaborators before the opening of the exhibition, and destroyed by him and collaborators later. The exhibition took place from 30 April to 30 June 1969 in Barcelona. It was originally scheduled to end on 30 May, but it was extended for a month. The COAC"
"merits, it was certainly of interest from the point of view of the art historian as evidence of a nascent reaction against naturalism, and a return to the older principles of art which the naturalistic movement drove out of favor."" Mario de Maria Mario or Marius de Maria (9 September 1852-1924) was an Italian painter, known for depicting nocturnal landscapes, and gaining the label by the contemporary poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, as the ""painter of moons"". He was born in Bologna into a family with an artistic pedigree: his great-grandfather had been the orchestra director at St Petersburg, while his paternal"
"arm, body, teeth), white (face, nose, neck) and shades of red (cap, nose, cheek, neck, right arm), with green, blue and yellow in the background, including a blue star, and some exposed buff of the celotex ground. The Reaper (Miró painting) The Reaper (""El segador""), also known as ""Catalan peasant in revolt"" (""El campesino catalán en rebeldía"") was a large mural created by Joan Miró in Paris in 1937 for the Spanish Republic’s pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition that year. It was one of his largest works, high, but was destroyed or lost in 1938. Only a few black"
"Joan Miró, and about 1,300 newspaper articles, not to mention his many catalogue forewords. In the 1950s and 60s, he was also one of the most influential German art critics to appear on radio and television. Furthermore, he was engaged in curating important exhibitions and ""played a significant role in drawing international attention to the avant-garde"". Will Grohmann Will Grohmann (born 4 December 1887 in Bautzen; died 6 May 1968 in Berlin) was a German art critic and art historian specialized in German Expressionism and abstract art. He was known as the ""godfather of modernism"". From 1908 to 1913 Grohmann"
"photographs. Miró otro Miró otro, originally spelled backwards as ""Orim"", was a retrospective of the Catalan painter Joan Miró's work organized by Official College of Architects of Catalonia (COAC) at its headquarters in Barcelona during April–June 1969. One of the most important and transgressors of this exhibit was the art intervention made by the artist and collaborators before the opening of the exhibition, and destroyed by him and collaborators later. The exhibition took place from 30 April to 30 June 1969 in Barcelona. It was originally scheduled to end on 30 May, but it was extended for a month. The"
"on him and his work. Jane Livingston says about the January 1966 Matisse exhibition that Diebenkorn saw in Los Angeles: Livingston goes on to say ""Diebenkorn must have experienced French Window at Collioure, as an epiphany."" Joan Miró was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Miró pioneered the technique of staining; creating blurry, multi-colored cloudy backgrounds in thinned oil paint throughout the 1920s and 1930s; on top of which he added his calligraphy, characters and abundant lexicon of words, and imagery. Arshile Gorky openly admired Miró's work and painted Miró-like Gorky paintings, before finally discovering his"
"Head of a Catalan Peasant Head of a Catalan Peasant is an emblematic sequence of oil paintings and pencil made by Joan Miró between 1924 and 1925. Miró began this series the same year that André Breton published his ""Manifesto of Surrealism"". The series was made partly in Paris. For Joan Miró ""a peasant"" symbolized rural knowledge, and also reflected his Catalan identity. The Fundació Joan Miró of Barcelona keeps several preparatory drawings for this series. The work demonstrates that Miró had ties with his homeland throughout his career. Joan Miró created this series in response to the prohibition of"
"César Moro César Moro (August 31, 1903 – January 10, 1956) is the pseudonym of Alfredo Quíspez Asín Mas, a Peruvian poet and painter. Most of his poetic works are written in French; he was the only Latin American poet included in the 1920s and '30s surrealist journals of André Breton and the first Latin American artist to join the surrealist group on his own initiative, as opposed to being recruited by Breton. Moro moved to Paris on August 30, 1925 initially to pursue ballet dancing, but shortly after focused his artistic efforts on creating art and poetry. He participated"
"the world, including the Maeght Foundation in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and many others. See also the Francois Fiedler Foundation on Wikipedia and on this website. Francois Fiedler Foundation François Fiedler François Fiedler (1921 in Košice , Slovakia – 2001 in Saint-Germain-Laval, Seine-et-Marne) was a Czechoslovakia-born naturalized French painter. One of the vitally important artists in the Aimé Maeght stable that included Marc Chagall, Giacometti and Joan Miró, was François Fiedler (1921-2001). Fiedler's life and art was chronicled in many books and journals, including ""Collection de la Fondation Maeght"", and several Maeght publications entitled simply ""Fiedler""."
"Milo Milunović Milo Milunović (6 August 1897 in Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro – 11 February 1967 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFRY) was a distinguished Montenegrin and Serbian painter. He dabbled in both Impressionism and Cubism. Milunović was born in Cetinje, Montenegro, but was educated in Shkodër, Monza, Florence (under the apprenticeship of Augusto Giacometti), and later in Paris. He joined the Montenegrin army in the World War I, and from 1919 to 1922 lived in Paris, where he became acquainted with the works of Cézanne. He spent 1923 in Prcanj, where he painted frescoes in the local church. From 1924"
"to give life to a remarkably personal language. Joan Mas Joan Mas i Ramon (Barcelona, 1934) is a post-impressionist style fine artist based at Barcelona and Paris. Joan Mas was Born in Barcelona in 1934. He went to Paris in the late 1950s, when he studied painting under the guidance of Roger Chastel at the ENSBA (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts) in Paris, from 1961 to 1968. Since then, his work has been exhibited mainly in Europe, specially at Barcelona and Paris. His painting was created in the post-impressionism with influences of cubism, abstract art and the new figurative. It"
"spray-painted hand-part of the monument in red. Miro Barešić Miro Barešić (10 September 1950 – 31 July 1991) was a Yugoslav-Croatian émigré who was imprisoned on terrorism charges and convicted in the 1971 murder of a Yugoslav diplomat, Vladimir Rolović. He later served as a soldier in Paraguay and in the Croatian National Guard in 1991. In 1969 Barešić was sentenced to six months in prison in Yugoslavia for avoiding military service, after which he left the country and joined the Croatian National Resistance movement. In 1971 he was convicted of the murder of Vladimir Rolović, Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden"
"a stone, it is a Miró."" Joan Prats Joan Prats (Barcelona, 1891 - Barcelona, 1970 ) was a Catalan art promoter and a close friend of Joan Miró Joan Prats was born in 1891 to a family who sold hats. He was trained as an artist in the Llotja School, where he first met Joan Miró, who was also training there. Prats organised exhibitions for leading Iberian artists including Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder and his good friend Miró. He was also associated with Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Josep Vicenç Foix and Joan Brossa. Prats together with rationalist architect"
"Constellations (Miró) Constellations is a series of 23 small paintings on paper, initiated by Joan Miró in 1939 in Varengeville-sur-Mer and completed in 1941 between Mallorca and Mont-roig del Camp. The Fundació Joan Miró preserves a work of this series and ""The Morning Star,"" one of the most important pieces of the series. The painter gave to his wife and she later donated to the Foundation. In August 1939, a month before the outbreak of the World War II, Miró, with his family escaped Paris and moved to Varengeville-sur-Mer, a small town in Normandy. This sentiment of escaping is clearly"
"Paul Klee and Joan Miró. At this time, he worked with unconventional materials such as Lycra, rope, wood, mirrors, and bronze. Blanco's sculptures were and continue to be geometric studies, interpretations of his internal world. In 1992, Blanco began to explore color and metal as a primary material. Jorge Blanco (artist) Jorge Blanco (born March 21, 1945 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan-born American artist, who emigrated to the United States in 1999. He has spent his professional career working as a sculptor, graphic designer and illustrator. His work is in public sites in the United States, South America and Japan."
"would suggest that he travelled through North Africa and the Middle East at some unknown date. Nicolae Gropeanu Nicolae Orval Gropeanu or, in French, Nicolas Gropeano (28 November 1863, Bacău - 6 January 1936, Paris) was a Romanian painter, pastelist and illustrator; probably of Jewish ancestry. He is known primarily for genre scenes, portraits and figures. Other variations on his name as it appears in official documents include Nicolae Gropper, Naia Groper and Noah Gropper. He studied with Theodor Aman and , who was better known as a writer. According to Jacques Doucet, a noted art collector, Gropeanu's debut at"
"Vangjush Mio Vangjush Mio (3 March 1891 – 30 December 1957) was an Albanian impressionist painter. He was the brother of the Albanian film director and actor Sokrat Mio. Mio was born on 3 March 1891 in Korçë, Albania. In 1908 due to economic reasons he had to leave together with his brother to Bucharest, Romania. He was active member of the Albanian artist colony in the Romanian capital and in 1915 he started his studies of Fine Arts at the Bucharest National University of Arts. He successfully completed his education in 1919 and in the same year he opened"
"Jose Moya del Pino José Moya del Piño (Born in 1891 in Priego de Cordoba, Spain – died in San Francisco in 1969) a Spanish-American painter and muralist. He associated with the Post-impressionists of Spain and the Depression-era muralists in the San Francisco Bay Area. José Moya del Pino studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. Made numerous portraits for the Spanish nobility and bourgeoisie and by 1925, King Alfonso XIII of Spain had appointed Moya director of the ""Spanish artistic mission"" to foster appreciation of Spanish art and culture in America. Moya"