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 ...

“Painting I” is the first of three expressive black, white and red paintings created by Joan Miró on April 12, 1967. Since the early 1960s, as a sign of a new phase in the artist's work, Miró has ...

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 ...

In one series, he would use the paintbrush to wreak havoc on the conventions of art (refusing to sign his work, finishing his work with excrement-like smears, reducing the human form to its most ...

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.

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 ...

The small oil painting came into the Foundation’s collection in 1975 following the death of Joan Prats, a friend and early Miró champion who had been gifted the work by the artist. In fact ...

A painting by Joan Miro sold for $36.9 million at a London auction Tuesday. The Sotheby’s sale of Miro’s “Peinture (Etoile Bleue)” was an auction record for the late Spanish artist.

Peinture (Étoile Bleue), a 1927 painting by Joan Miró is one of Miro’s most important works to come to market Joan Miró , “Peinture (Étoile Bleue),” 1927 (Courtesy Sotheby’s ...