Joan Miró in front of his painting, “Le Vol d’Oiseau par le Claire de Lune” (painted 1967) (photo c. 1970s. © Artists Rights Society, NY) How did postwar New ...

Peinture (Étoile Bleue), a 1927 painting by Joan Miró is one of Miro’s most important works to come to market Joan Miró , “Peinture (Étoile Bleue),” 1927 (Courtesy Sotheby’s) Peinture (Étoile Bleue), ...

What is anti-painting? Generally it connotes a way of creating art without using conventional techniques and materials, though many avant-garde artists have defined it differently. Some of the more ...

Joan Miró was overwhelmed by “the spectacle of the sky.” One of the most enduring abstract artists of the 20th century, the Catalan Spanish painter and sculptor described the relationship between the ...

Last week’s Impressionist and modern evening auction at Sotheby’s featured a major Joan Miró painting from the private collection of Chicago collector and philanthropist Jerome Stone. The piece, which ...

Zurich’s Galerie Gmurzynska opened its survey of Surrealist master Joan Miró’s work this past weekend with an adventurous performance by the artist’s grandson, Joan Punyet Miró, entitled Surrealism ...

“I am an established painter but a young sculptor.” So said Joan Miró, at 88, to fellow sculptor Alexander Calder in 1981. He wasn’t just being coy. Miró (1893-1983), best known for his surrealist ...

When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, framers, conservators, curators, administrators and architects — had designs ...

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The Spaniard applied free association to the canvas with radical results. When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, ...

In 1927, Joan Miró famously declared he would "assassinate painting." His plan, as it turns out, was not to blow a hole in the medium`s heart, but to infiltrate its ranks and slip slow poison in its ...