Preparatory object for the sculpture Joan Miró's "Personnage" (c.1970) (image courtesy Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Photographic Archive) Miró was born in 1893 to a family of craftspeople.

On April 20, 1981 — 44 years ago Sunday — a long-awaited piece of public sculpture was unveiled to a crowd on a chilly day in downtown Chicago. Going back to the 1960s, a sculpture by Spanish Catalan ...

“My dream, once I am able to settle down somewhere, is to have a very large studio,” the Spanish artist Joan Miró wrote in “I Dream of a Large Studio,” a 1939 essay for a French art publication. At ...

Out of the Earth: A Visit With Joan Miró Joan Miró, one of Spain’s most notable living painters, has been besieged by writers and journalists, and all that most have been able to wring out of him is ...

Joan Miro, the Spanish modern artist often associated with Surrealism, is not widely known to have any direct ties with Korea. But his ceramic practice, working in the middle of a forest about 64 ...

You might have booked a Barcelona trip with Antoni Gaudí’s steeples in mind, or to see one of the most comprehensive collections of Picasso, but it’s Joan Miró who first welcomes you to the seaside ...