Joan Miró Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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 miro (1893-1983) - Ubu Rey (Ubu Roi) - 1966
By Joan Miró
Located in Varese, IT
Colour lithograph on fine Arches paper
Published in 1966
Publisher: Maeght, Paris
Limited Edition
Artist's signature and numbering in pencil
Numbered copy: 13/75
Paper size: 54.5 x 7...
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Joan Mirò (1893-1983) - Ubu rey (Ubu Roi) - 1966
By Joan Miró
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithograph on fine Arches paper
Published 1966
Publisher: Maeght, Paris
Limited edition
Signature and numbering in pencil by the artist
Numbered specimen: 68/75
Paper size: 54...
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1960s Abstract Joan Miró Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ruthven Todd Poem
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983)
Title: Ruthven Todd Poem
Year: 1966 (1970)
Medium: Ink and Crayon on Guarro laid paper, signed l.r.
Size: 14.5 x 10 in. (36.83 x 25.4 cm)
Fra...
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- What was Joan Miro's art style?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Joan 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.