An image of a painting by Joan Miro is frequently circulated on social media along with two claims: That it sold for $37 million, and that the painting could have been created by a kindergartner: This ...

When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, framers, conservators, curators, administrators and architects — had designs ...

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) Peinture (Étoile Bleue), ...

Spanish Surrealist Joan Miró found refuge in the natural world—even during the most turbulent of times. In fact, from January 1940 to September 1941, just as World War II broke out, the artist devoted ...

The fate of the Portuguese government’s collection of 85 Joan Miró paintings, which was on the verge of being auctioned off in 2014, has finally been determined. On Monday, Prime Minister Antonio ...

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We often associate art with creation, admittedly a perfectly rational thought. We imagine the artist toiling away--dripping paint, molding clay, submerging animals in formaldehyde, whatever--until ...

Joan Miro is one of the most renowned painters of the 20th century. Now a major exhibition in Frankfurt celebrates the artist who once declared he wanted to "kill painting." The Catalan artist Joan ...

In 1927, Joan Miro (1893-1983) claimed he wanted to "assassinate" painting. Eventually he hit upon sculpture as a means of doing it. The 14 small-scale sculptures in "Sculptures of Joan Miro from the ...

The Spaniard applied free association to the canvas with radical results. When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, ...