Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Spain.
Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1935
The Farm, 1921–1922, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Joan Miró, 1918, La casa de la palmera (The House with the Palm Tree), oil on canvas, 65 x 73 cm, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Exhibited at Galerie La Licorne, Paris, 1921, reproduced in the catalogue
Joan Miró, 1920, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, oil on canvas, 82.6 × 74.9 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Exhibited Exposició d'Art francès d'Avantguarda, Galeries Dalmau, 26 October – 15 November 1920, reproduced in the catalogue
Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depic
Joan Miró
…also mee-ROH, Catalan: ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Spain. His work has been interpreted as Surrealist with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious…
The Treachery of Images, by René Magritte (1929), featuring the declaration "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (lit. 'This is not a pipe')
Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921
Cover of the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste, December 1924
Yvan Goll, Surréalisme, Manifeste du surréalisme, Volume 1, Number 1, 1 October 1924, cover by Robert Delaunay