WASHINGTON — Joan Miró, the great Spanish painter of dreams and symbols, lived through so many harrowing eras of the 20th century that critics believe his masterpieces surely reflect the ...

This painting really was executed by Spanish artist Joan Miro, and in 2012 it sold at a Sotheby's auction for 23.56 million pounds (approximately $37 million).. Equating this painting, entitled ...

Joan Miró, Femme et oiseau (Woman and Bird), 1972. Acquavella Galleries. Monstrous might be a term of endearment for Miró’s bronze casts. They can look familiar, with conjured female figures ...

Miro’s suggestible approach chimed with Leonardo da Vinci’s famous advice about letting small visual prompts trigger the imagination. ... Joan Miró (b. 1893). At the Art Institute of Chicago.

A recreation of the studio of the painter Joan Miro, presented by Gallery Mayoral, on January 19, 2016 in London. Photo Anthony Harvey/Getty Images. Lorena Muñoz-Alonso September 28, 2016 Share ...

The torchbearers for one of Spain's most famous artists, Joan Miro, are promising a year-long fiesta of events honouring the surrealist -- and the foundation he set up half a century ago.

The Poetry of Everyday Life at the Hong Kong Museum of Art features 94 of Spanish artist Joan Miró’s works, including some that use everyday objects and found objects to explore ‘our place in ...

On April 20, 1981, Spanish Catalan artist Joan Miró's famous Chicago sculpture was unveiled next to what is now called the Cook County Administration Building. Before the unveiling, renowned ...

Monday, April 20, 1981, was artist Joan Miró's 88th birthday. It was also the day that Mayor Jane Byrne pulled a cord to unveil Miró's iconic contribution to the aesthetics of downtown Chicago.

Something about this rarely acknowledged but pervasive assumption may shift — silently but tectonically — when you stand in front of this painting at the Art Institute of Chicago by Joan Miró ...