Joan Miró : 1893-1983 : the poet among the surrealists / Janis Mink.
He is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the 20th century. The themes and treatments of his early work were shaped by the Catalan landscape and clearly show the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. During his travels, Miró encountered the intellectual avant-garde of his time; his friends included Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, André Masson, Jean Arp and Pablo Picasso. --Publisher's description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9783836529235
- Physical Description: 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
- Edition: English edition.
- Publisher: Köln : Taschen, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | Previous edition published in 1993 by Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "If this is painting, then I am Velázquez" -- A monk, a soldier and a poet -- Poetic license -- New constellations -- The dream of a large studio -- Joan Miró 1893-1983, life and work. |
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Subject: | Miró, Joan, 1893-1983. Miró, Joan, 1893-1983. |
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Summary
Miró
With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (1893-1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and embracing ideologies as varied as Fauvism, Surrealism, Dada, Magic Realism, Cubism, and abstraction. Over the course of his prodigious output, Miró evolved constantly, seeking to eschew categorization and the approval of "bourgeois" art critics as much as he pursued his own dreamlike worlds. Emerging into the public spotlight in the early 1920s, he first experimented with Fauvism and Cubism before developing a distinctive style of symbols and pictograms, arranged in elusive visual narratives, with frequent reference to Catalan life. As his career progressed, Miró moved towards Surrealism, and, despite never fully identifying with the movement, emerged as one of its most celebrated practitioners with techniques including automated drawing, Lyrical Abstraction, and Color Field painting. In later years, he diversified his media further, working with ceramics, textiles, and even proposing sculptures made of gas. Through his vivid colors, dreamlike fantasies, and enigmatic symbols, this book brings together the numerous strands of Miró's kaleidoscopic oeuvre to introduce his fascinating career, its interaction with major modernist movements, and how it made him into a modernist legend.