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 ...

Whenever I thought of his art, his colorful ... He then moved on to surrealism and it was during that period that he developed his unique pictorial language. In his 50s, Miro took up pottery ...

Going back to the 1960s, a sculpture by Spanish Catalan artist Joan Miró had been part ... and he joined the Surrealist group — an avant-garde creative movement led by poet André Breton.

With his seemingly naïve, symbolic paintings, Joan Miró formed a new artistic language in the 20th century. Brought up in Barcelona, the painter, graphic artist and sculptor was drawn to Paris ...

Miro’s suggestible ... painted this work, surrealist writer Michel Leiris noted in his journal something he overheard the film director Roland Tual say: “Miró’s painting is the shortest ...