When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the ... A bloblike shape in red suggests the policeman’s hand. But the forms of these figures are so arbitrary, so ...

What’s wrong with enjoying his paintings purely as paintings? It’s all too easy with an abstract artist like Miró to read into him whatever meaning one feels like. In truth, Miró wasn’t a ...

Then the Spanish modernist boldly set out to “deconstruct everything he’d been taught” about how to paint. Instead of ... and softly undulating, amoeba-like shapes.” Museumgoers may ...

like enlarged microscope slides of cellular life. One set of gigantic paintings should be known as the “Traffic-Light Triptych”, on account of Miró’s liberal use of red, amber and green.

In 1927, Spanish artist Joan Miró declared, "I want to assassinate painting." Miró spent the next 10 years shattering and subverting the conventions of art through collage, construction and ...

A recent evening at the Seattle Art Museum, and visitors are ... elements become unified. It's almost like the memory of these objects. Miro collected the objects from a variety of sources ...

A painting by Joan Miro has sold for a world record figure for the Spanish artist's work at the start of a bumper series of high-value art sales at Christie's in London. Le Coq fetched 6.6 million ...