Miró in the mid- to late 1920s was punk. He was a one-man aesthetic earthquake. He wanted to return painting to first ...

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 ...

Kapwani Kiwanga has been awarded the 2025 Joan Miró Prize. She will receive a €50,000 grant and a solo show at the Fundació ...

But as his lifelong friend Joan Prats, a Barcelona publisher and art collector, once noted, “When I pick up a stone, it’s a stone; when Miró picks up a stone, it’s a Miró.” And while the ...

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 ...

Something about this rarely acknowledged but pervasive assumption may shift — silently but tectonically — when you stand in front of this painting at the Art Institute of Chicago by Joan Miró ...