Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà ...

Monday, April 20, 1981, was artist Joan Miró's 88th birthday. It was also the day that Mayor Jane Byrne pulled a cord to ...

The revelation comes almost 50 years after the artist’s foundation first detected the likeness of a mysterious woman behind the deep blue of “Painting” (1927).

Joan Miró—a multidisciplinary modern artist known for his playful and colorful abstract style—painted a characteristically enigmatic composition atop an earlier, more traditional portrait of ...

In a Freudian posthumous twist, researchers discovered a portrait of Catalan artist Joan Miró’s mother concealed beneath his “Painting” nearly a century after its completion in 1927.

Joan Miro (1893-1983), one of ... of Francisco Franco (1892-1975), Miro remained a staunch opponent of fascism. Whenever I thought of his art, his colorful, abstracted pictorial signs were always ...