Constellations. (Miró) The Constellations are a series of 23 paintings on paper produced from January 1940 to September 1941 by the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró. Art historians and museum curators have said of the paintings: "Universally considered one of the greatest achievements of his career", [1] : 1 p. "The Constellations, as a group and. Constellations, 1940 by Joan Miro. In 1939, at the outbreak of the second world war, Miro and his family moved to Varengeville on the Normandy coast, a few miles from Dieppe. Georges Braque was a neighbour. The village was subject to a blackout, and that fact prompted Miro's most luminous and affecting series of paintings, The Constellations.
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Joan Miró has 487 works online. There are 10,167 illustrated books online. Licensing. If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA's collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press. In 1919, Joan Miró left his native country of Spain for France, where, along with fellow Spaniard Salvador Dalí, he became one of the pioneers of Surrealism.. James Johnson Sweeney. "Miro's Modern Magic.". La Odisea de Miró y sus "Constelaciones": El pintor y sus marchantes. Madrid, [2016], pp. 129, 212, 215, 225, 249-50. Joan Miró's revelatory series emerged against a backdrop of war and chaos. Following the end of the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of World War II, Joan Miró fled with his family to the. Joan Miró The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers (Le Bel oiseau déchiffrant l'inconnu au couple d'amoureux) (from the Constellation series) 1941 Not on view This is one of a celebrated group of twenty-four drawings, collectively referred to as the Constellation series, which was executed during a period of personal crisis for Miró triggered by the Spanish Civil War and.
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Joan Miró 1893-1983. P77138 Constellations 1959. Etching 277 x 195 (10 5/8 x 7 5/8) on Vélin d'Arches paper 442 x 362 (17 3/4 x 14 1/4); plate-mark 277 x 195 (10 5/8 x 7 5/8); watermark 'ARCHES'; printed at l'Atelier Lacourière- Frélaut, Paris and published by Pierre Matisse to accompany the book by André Breton entitled Constellations. In this segment of From the Vaults, we continue to explore treasures from the Aramont Library. Constellations is series of 23 gouache paintings completed by Joan Miró between the turbulent years of 1939 and 1941. When the war was over, the Constellations series was exhibited by Miró's dealer Pierre Matisse (son of Henri Matisse) in New York. The paintings were adopted by many artists and. Email:
[email protected] / Phone: +44 7429 011000. Joan Miro produced a series of paintings themed on constellations in a short period around the start of WWII. This collection of work would become one of his more memorable series and the content perfectly suits his abstract style of clear shapes in bold colour. Joan Miró (1893, Espagne - 1983, Espagne) Main title Constellations. Creation date 1959. Is part of the set Constellations Portfolio (Dissociable set of artworks) Portfolio de soixante-quinze éléments dont vingt-deux planches et une lithographie originale illustrant "Proses parallèles" d'André Breton dans un emboîtage..
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Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism. Picasso's sizable oeuvre grew to. Exhibition History. References. Title: Constellation: Women on the Beach. Artist: Joan Miró (Spanish, Barcelona 1893-1983 Palma de Mallorca) Date: 1940. Medium: Gouache and oil wash on paper. Dimensions: 15 × 18 in. (38.1 × 45.7 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998.
Constellation the Morning Star, 1939 by Joan Miro. Joan Miro created The Morning Star, one of the most important pieces of in his Constellation series and gave it to his wife who later donated the painting to the Miro Foundation. In August 1939, a month before the outbreak of the World War II, Miro, with his family escaped Paris and moved to Varengeville-sur-Mer, a small town in Normandy. In January 1940, he began a series of twenty-three works on paper that later became known as The Constellations, of which this is an example. Composed on identically sized sheets of paper over twenty-one months, this remarkably poetic suite was created from January 1940 to September 1941, under the duress of World War II, when Miró and his.
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In 1940, German troops invaded France - and Miro again forced to flee. On the train from Varanzhevil to Paris, through the bombing and the roar of shells, Miro, his wife Pilar and ten-year-old daughter Dolores ride. Miro only has a portfolio with him, in which he takes 10 ready-made sheets with "Constellations" and empty sheets for new ones. The 23 Constellations of Joan Miró is a cycle of 23 movements for each of the 23 "Constellation" paintings by the artist Joan Miró, painted during World War II. Commissioned by the City of Birmingham, UK, Constellations was performed in February 2004 on a seven-city tour of the United Kingdom, and at the Teatro Nationale in Milan, Italy in May of 2005.
