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Culberg Reference Number 1952.512 Copyright © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Extended information about this artwork Status On View, Gallery 398 Department Modern Art Artist Joan Miró Title Painting (Figures with Stars) Place Spain (Artist's nationality) Date 1933 Medium Oil on canvas Inscriptions Inscribed on verso, c.: 'Joan Miró' Dimensions 198.1 × 246.4 cm (78 × 97 in.) Credit Line Gift of Mr. Two of Miró’s designs, including this one, were made into tapestries at the famous French Aubusson tapestry works. This painting, titled Painting (Figures with Stars), is one of four cartoons for tapestries commissioned in 1933 by the French art collector and gallery director Marie Cuttoli. In addition to designing theater sets, backdrops, and costumes, Miró was involved in the decorative arts. Others, including Joan Miró, embraced it as a venue for new creative possibilities. For two of the great leaders of the movement, André Breton and Louis Aragon, this engagement defied the core principles of the group by bringing avant-garde art into the marketplace. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an 'assassination of painting' in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.In the 1930s, the Surrealist movement grew beyond its avant-garde art origins and extended into the mainstream realms of commerce and advertising, fashion, theater, and design. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981.Įarning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was known as Joan Miró in the art recognition. Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mi-ROH, US also mee-ROH, Catalan: 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

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