4/17/2023 0 Comments Miro artist![]() ![]() The most prominent of these is an amorphous white shape floating on the left, painted in patchy brushstrokes that allow glimpses of the blue beneath. ![]() Over this luminous monochrome surface are arranged several delicately irregular forms. ![]() These sculptures not only retain, but condense to great effect, the ambition, concept and scope of the artists’ larger scale work.Painting is a large canvas in landscape format dominated by a highly saturated cerulean blue ground painted in tempera. Many of the works have component parts such as handles, or curves and indentations, of which the size is recognisably intended to fit into the human hand or to create a dialogue with the body. This digital presentation includes a variety of intriguing small-scale sculptures, from pieces that deliberately engage with human proportions designed for domestic settings, to hand-made models and maquettes that respond to larger sculptures, often giving rise to new ones. While renowned sculptors often rise to prominence with large-scale – sometimes monumental – pieces, many also work on an altogether more human measure. Waddington Custot presents Table Pieces, a digital exhibition dedicated to an intimate collection of sculptural pieces by eight celebrated artists: Alma Allen, César, Barry Flanagan, Fausto Melotti, Joan Miró, Beverly Pepper, Pablo Reinoso and Antoni Tàpies. Subsequent retrospectives include the Kunsthalle Basel (1952) Museum of Modern Art (1959) Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1962) Tate Gallery (1964), travelling to Kunsthaus Zurich Fondation Maeght (1990) and Tate Modern (2011), travelling to Fundació Joan Miró and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In 1947, Miró participated in the important Surrealist group exhibition Surrealism in 1947 at Galerie Maeght in Paris. In 1941, the Museum of Modern Art organizes a major Miró retrospective exhibition. In 1930, Miró has first exhibition in New York, at the Valentine Gallery. He participates in the Surrealist Painting exhibition at Galerie Pierre Loeb in 1925. Miró first moved to Paris in 1920, and the following year has his first solo exhibition there. His first solo show is held at the Galerie Dalmau, Barcelona, in 1918. Miró studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts in the period 1912-15. In 1975, the Fundació Joan Miró opened its doors in Barcelona. The turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War precipitated the menacing imagery of Miró's work in the 1940s, when he had returned to Spain. In later life, Miró created many ceramic works and monumental works. His dreamscapes are the visual manifestation of surrealist poetry, a constellation of innocent and sophisticated forms intended to challenge the tradition of painting. Miró's mature style deploys a complex iconography of biomorphic forms and symbols in a distinctive palette of primary red, green, blue, yellow and black. In 1920s Paris, Miró meets André Masson, Paul Eluard, Pablo Picasso and many others associated with Dada, before Breton describes him as 'the most surrealist among us'. Early influences on Miró include Fauvism, Cubism, Catalan folk art and Romanesque church frescoes. ![]() 1983, Palma, Spain) is a Catalan painter, sculptor and printmaker famous for his important contribution to Surrealism. ![]()
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