A few years after Miró ’ s 1918 Barcelona solo exhibition, he settled in Paris where he finished a number of paintings that he had begun on his parents ’ farm in Mont-roig del Camp.

Catalan Landscape ( The Hunter ) and the Tilled Field, two of Miró ’ s first works classified as Surrealist, employ the symbolic language that was to dominate the art of the next decade.

The already symbolic and poetic nature of Miró ’ s work, as well as the dualities and contradictions inherent to it, fit well within the context of dream-like automatism espoused by the group.

Much of Miró ’ s work lost the cluttered chaotic lack of focus that had defined his work thus far, and he experimented with collage and the process of painting within his work so as to reject the framing that traditional painting provided.

The paintings that came out of this period were eventually dubbed Miró ’ s dream paintings.

Miró ’ s work rarely dipped into non-objectivity, maintaining a symbolic, schematic language.

Though a sense of nationalism pervaded his earliest surreal landscapes and Head of a Catalan Peasant, it wasn ’ t until Spain ’ s Republican government commissioned him to paint the mural, The Reaper, for the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exhibition, that Miró ’ s work took on a politically charged meaning.

In 1939, with Germany ’ s invasion of France looming, Miró relocated to Varengeville in Normandy, and on May 20 of the following year, as Germans invaded Paris, he narrowly fled to Spain ( now controlled by Francisco Franco ) for the duration of the Vichy Regime ’ s rule.

Their working method was based on spontaneity and experiment, and they drew their inspiration in particular from children ’ s drawings, from primitive art forms and from the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miró.

In the forest they run into Jaime Miró hiding with his men, Ricardo and Felix from the prison, Jaime ’ s girlfriend Amparo, and Rubio Arzano, another man, and decide to travel on together.

When they inquire how he found this information, he replies that one of Miró ’ s terrorists is an informant.

Colonel Acoca ’ s men raid Jaime Miró ’ s camp with the nuns, and they split up to avoid capture-Ricardo Mellado with Sister Graciela, Rubio Arzano with Sister Lucia, and Jaime Miró, Felix Carpio, and Amparo with Sister Megan.

Following a falling-out with the surrealist leader André Breton in 1929, Leiris contributed an essay to the anti-Breton pamphlet Un Cadavre, and joined Bataille ’ s team as a sub-editor for Documents, to which he also regularly contributed articles such as “ Notes on Two Microcosmic Figures of the 14th and 15th Centuries ” ( 1929, issue 1 ), “ In Connection with the ‘ Musée des Sorciers '" ( 1929, issue 2 ), " Civilisation " ( 1929, issue 4 ), “ The ‘ Caput Mortuum ’ or the Alchemist ’ s Wife ” ( 1930, issue 8 ), and on artists such as Giacometti, Miró, Picasso, and the 16th Century painter Antoine Caron.

Joan Miró, The Tilled Field, ( 1923 – 1924 ), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Matisse and Miró as well as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian directly influenced the Abstract Expressionists, the Color Field painters of Post-Painterly Abstraction and the Lyrical Abstractionists.

Taking its example from other European modernists like Joan Miró, the Color Field movement encompasses several decades from the mid 20th century through the early 21st century.

* Contemporary Spanish Engraving Museum: created in 1992 contains a collection of prints by twentieth-century artists such as Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Tapies, Chillida and the El Paso Group ( Rafael Canogar, Manolo Millares, Antonio Saura, Pablo Serrano, et al.

It contains works by such artists as Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Henri Laurens, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Miró and Henry Moore.

In 1993, the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, several exhibitions were held, among which the most prominent were those held in the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Barcelona, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the Galerie Lelong, Paris.

It initially referred to a particular type of abstract expressionism, especially the work of Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb and several series of paintings by Joan Miró.

Yet, another facet of his literary opus were a number of poetry and graphic arts collections ( for which he collaborated with Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Alexander Calder, and others ), several books of poetry, as well as several narrative works on art ( some edited in Italian under pen names ).

He has also published a number of translations, most notably Shakespeare and published several works on art and art history, including Miró and Giacometti.

The building houses several pieces of art donated by Stephan Schmidheiny, a former director of the Institute, including a sculpture by Joan Miró and a painting by Elizabeth Murray.

Bosch's imagery struck a chord with Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí in particular.

Among the artists represented in the collection are, from Italy, De Chirico ( The Red Tower, The Nostalgia of the Poet ) and Severini ( Sea Dancer ); from France, Braque ( The Clarinet ), Duchamp ( Sad Young Man on a Train ), Léger ( Study of a Nude ), Picabia ( Very Rare Picture on Earth ); from Spain, Dalí ( Birth of Liquid Desires ), Miró ( Seated Woman II ) and Picasso ( The Poet, On the Beach ); from other European countries, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), Max Ernst ( The Kiss, Attirement of the Bride ), Giacometti ( Woman with Her Throat Cut, Woman Walking ), Gorky ( Untitled ), Kandinsky ( Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, White Cross ), Klee ( Magic Garden ), Magritte ( Empire of Light ) and Mondrian ( Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938, Composition with Red 1939 ); and from the US, Calder ( Arc of Petals ) and Pollock ( The Moon Woman, Alchemy ).

" Miró confessed to creating one of his most famous works, Harlequin's Carnival, under similar circumstances:

* Spanish — Miró, Joan ( worked mainly in France and U. S. A .): Pierrot le fou ( 1964 ); Picasso, Pablo ( worked mainly in France ): Many works, including Pierrot with Newspaper and Bird ( 1969 ), various versions of Pierrot and Harlequin ( 1970, 1971 ), and metal cut-outs: Head of Pierrot ( c. 1961 ), Pierrot ( 1961 ); Roig, Bernardí: Pierrot le fou ( 2009 ; polyester and neon lighting ).

Miró married Pilar Juncosa in Palma ( Majorca ) on October 12, 1929 ; their daughter Dolores was born July 17, 1931.

The large retrospectives devoted to Miró in his old age in towns such as New York ( 1972 ), London ( 1972 ), Saint-Paul-de-Vence ( 1973 ) and Paris ( 1974 ) were a good indication of the international acclaim that had grown steadily over the previous half-century ; further major retrospectives took place posthumously.

During the extra time to determine the winner, Zarraonandía had an opportunity to score against rival goalkeeper Miró, but he missed the shot ; consequently, FC Barcelona won the match and Cup.

The reactionary French Patriots interrupted the screening by throwing ink at the cinema screen and assaulting viewers who opposed them ; they then went to the lobby and destroyed art works by Dalí, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, and others.

Wilkinson met with Spanish Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró and managed to convince him to allow Kentucky to have a trading monopoly on the Mississippi River ; in return he promised to promote Spanish interests in the west.

For the artistic content of the building, Sert called on his Spanish artist friends Picasso, Miró, and Calder ; Picasso's contribution was Guernica and became the focal attraction of Sert's design.

Miró pioneered the technique of staining ; creating blurry, multi-colored cloudy backgrounds in thinned oil paint throughout the 1920s and 1930s ; on top of which he added his calligraphy, characters and abundant lexicon of words, and imagery.

During the 1960s Miró painted large ( abstract expressionist scale ) radiant fields of vigorously brushed paint in blue, in white, and other monochromatic fields of colors ; with blurry black orbs and calligraphic stone-like shapes, floating at random.

She has received music commissions and has performed her work for Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC ; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; The Kennedy Center, Washington, D. C .; Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris ; Tampere Jazz Happening in Finland ; Philippine Women's University in Manila ; Lincoln Center in NYC ; San Francisco Jazz Festival ; TED ( conference ) in Long Beach, California ; Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, Spain ; the Museum of Modern Art, New York ; De Singel in Antwerp ; the Barbican Centre in the United Kingdom.

Colonel Acoca is furious ; he has figured out that four of the nuns are missing and is convinced that Jaime Miró escaped before the soldiers got there.

In 1953, he graduated from high school as one of the " most likely to succeed " students ( his school picked more than one student for that title ; Miró was chosen in the entertainment area ).

Many of these same artists, plus Jean Arp, Amedeo Modigliani, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Joan Miró, Constantin Brâncuşi, Raoul Dufy, René Iché, Tsuguharu Foujita, Emmanuel Mané-Katz ; the Artists from Belarus, including Chaim Soutine, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipschitz ; the Russian prince born in Saint Petersburg Alexis Arapoff, and others worked in Paris between World War I and World War II, in various styles including Surrealism and Dada.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.

Picasso had already heard favorable reports about Dalí from Joan Miró.

In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an " assassination of painting " in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

Inspired by Cubist and surrealist exhibitions from abroad, Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, but continued to spend his summers in Catalonia.

Unlike many of his surrealist contemporaries, Miró had previously preferred to stay away from explicitly political commentary in his work.

In 1979 Miró received a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Barcelona.

Miró, who suffered from heart disease, died in his home in Palma ( Majorca ) on December 25, 1983.

Some of the notable artists are Picasso, Dalí, Magritte, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), eleven works by Pollock, Braque, Duchamp, Léger, Severini, Picabia, de Chirico, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Miró, Giacometti, Klee, Gorky, Calder, Max Ernst and Peggy Guggenheim's daughter, Pegeen Vail Guggenheim.

Many first generation abstract expressionists were influenced both by the Cubists ' works ( which they knew from photographs in art reviews and by seeing the works at the 291 Gallery or the Armory Show ), by the European Surrealists, and by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Henri Matisse as well as the Americans Milton Avery, John D. Graham, and Hans Hofmann.

The station is also home to the tram which runs from Sóller to Port de Sóller and ( inside the building ) a museum dedicated to the works of Picasso and Joan Miró.

Long divorced from his second wife, Marisol Gallisá, Vigoreaux in the early 1990s married Dana Miró, also a show host and daughter of Telemundo Puerto Rico's show host Eddie Miró.

Sculptures include works by a variety of artists, ranging from the obscure to international stars such as Jean / Hans Arp, César Baldaccini, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Joan Miró and Victor Vasarely.

Artists making public art range from the greatest masters such as Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, and Joan Miró, to those who specialize in public art such as Claes Oldenburg and Pierre Granche, to anonymous artists who make surreptitious interventions.

Some surrealists in particular Joan Miró, who called for the " murder of painting " ( In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods and his desire to " kill ", " murder ", or " rape " them in favor of more contemporary means of expression ).