Spanish Surrealist Joan Miró found refuge in the natural world—even during the most turbulent of times. In fact, from January 1940 to September 1941, just as World War II broke out, the artist devoted ...

Preparatory object for the sculpture Joan Miró's "Personnage" (c.1970) (image courtesy Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Photographic Archive) Miró was born in 1893 to a family of craftspeople.

Joan Miró, born on April 20, 1893, in Barcelona, Spain, was a renowned Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist known for his distinctive surrealist style.

Joan Miró grows more animated and throws his hands into flight, like two birds. “Hands were very well invented. The lines in the hand, the drawing in the palm of the hand is like a strange little ...

Before there were Colorforms, there was Joan Miró. Few artists before, during or after left such a colorful legacy, let alone a work built around a stuffed parrot. That last, a taxidermied bird the ...

A portrait of Joan Miro's mother has hidden under "Painting" (1925–1927) for a century. (all images courtesy Fundació Joan Miró) In a Freudian posthumous twist, researchers discovered a portrait of ...

Miró had a sorcerer’s ability to turn the mundane in our lives into a golden source of magical engagement. Joan Prats, one of Miró’s dearest friends, once said, “When I pick up a stone it’s a stone.

Over the past decade or so, admirers of Joan Miró, willing to make a little effort, have been encouraged to consider this fascinating artist’s work in many different ways. At intervals, during that ...