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Joan Miró Paintings

Catalan, 1893-1983

With his wide-ranging oeuvre, comprising strikingly original paintings, prints, ceramics, sculptures, metal engravings and murals, Catalan modernist Joan Miró was a critical force in moving 20th-century art toward complete abstraction. Although often considered an early Surrealist because of his nonobjective imagery and evocation of the subconscious, he defies neat categorization.

Miró’s identity is largely rooted in the city of his birth: Barcelona. To this day, a number of his public artworks can be found there, including the 72-foot-tall statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird), 1983. Female and avian forms, along with bright colors and the theme of Catalan pride, are recurring elements in his work.

The radical visual world Miró created with his expressive lines, signature symbols and biomorphic shapes influenced such American Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Color Field painters like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.

Mirò continued to work and experiment until his death at the age of 90 in 1983. Five years before that, he was quoted saying, “I painted these paintings in a frenzy, with real violence so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go. I’m heading in new directions.”

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Artist: Joan Miró
Joan Miró Litografia Original VII – 1972 Color Lithograph, Spanish Edition
By Joan Miró
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Litografia Original VII by Joan Miró, a 1972 color lithograph from Litografo (Volume I, Spanish edition), catalogued as Mourlot 863. Published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, with...
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20th Century Surrealist Joan Miró Paintings

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Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Joan Miro. Original single piece mixed technique painting
By Joan Miró
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Joan Miro. Original single piece mixed technique painting Joan Miro Ferra 1893-1983 Original Study for “EL GOLAFRE ".NOT SIGNED 1979 Unique. Gouache, lithotint and crayon on paper ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Joan Miró Paintings

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Miro original painting.
By Joan Miró
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Original drawing painted in wax by Joan Miro. Certified by Jacques Dupin, official certifier of the artist's work. The work is a wax painted on two continuous pages of a book publish...
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1960s Abstract Joan Miró Paintings

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Crayon

UBUs CHILDHOOD x3
By Joan Miró
Located in Naples, Florida
UBUs CHILDHOOD x3
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20th Century Joan Miró Paintings

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Lithograph

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    Joan Miró is known as one of the pioneers of Surrealism, but at times his work steered towards Fauvism and Expressionism as well. The visual world Miró created with his expressive lines, signature symbols and biomorphic shapes was truly radical and it influenced artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Shop a wide range of Joan Miró art from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.

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