A BRONZE Miró sculpture interrupts the sidewalk below the grand Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca. It stretches up, the height of two men, a hollowed concave rectangle topped by a large egg-shaped nugget tilted toward the Mediterranean. Day after day, tourists rush past it in a hustle, descending from the steep side street that winds down to the...
NEW YORK -- In just 90 minutes, 44 paintings, drawings and sculptures sold for a cool $170 million at Sotheby's Tuesday evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art. But rarely has so much money been spent in such a dull atmosphere. When the top lot, in this case Picasso's ''Femmes lisant (deux personnages),'' makes a steep $21.36 million and yet...
FAVORITE paintings in New York museums? You don't have to be an art critic to have a few, or a few dozen. Winnowing these treasures down to five -- the assignment here for three critics for The New York Times -- is a pleasant, invigorating yet implicitly arbitrary endeavor. The resulting lists can only be characterized conditionally, as personal,...
Joan Miró (20. april 1893-1983 i Barcelona) var en spansk surrealistisk kunstner. Miró både malede og lavede skulpturer. Han var en af de kendteste i sin tid og han var en af modernismens frontfigurer ved sin død i 1983. Sammen med Salvador Dalí og René Magritte var han med i spidsen af surrealismen. Miró kan nævnes blandt kunstnere som Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Dalí og Warhol når man snakker om det 20. århundredes mest fremtrædende kunstnere. Privat var Dalí og Miró bitre fjender, meget på grund af Dalís imødekommenhed ovenfor fascismen og Mirós klare modstand mod samme ideologi. Miró er blevet hædret med et museum i hjembyen Barcelona.