Joan Miro

Joan Miro is a famous Spanish artist and subject of a large Joan Miro exhibition in Tate Modern, London, UK throughout the summer of 2011. Joanmiro.co.uk brings you location information on the exhibition plus features further detail on the artist himself, alongside large images of his most famous oil paintings. Miro was an abstract painter who deliberately fought against traditional styles within art that he felt were too old fashioned, restrictive and boring.

Joan Miro achieved innovation within his career that helped him to stand out from all the other established artists to have risen from Spain. Joan Miro is best known for his oil on canvas paintings but there were also several art mediums in which he excelled, and these are also covered within Joanmiro.co.uk. You can also buy Miro paintings here.

Joan Miro held a consistent style within his modern art and this has since been incorporated into recent advertising campaigns and print work, despite coming so many years after his career passed away. Joan Miro used circles and dashes with bold colours for many years and this helped him to establish a signature style in a similar way to brands within the present day.

Joan Miro 2011 Exhibition London Tate Modern

London's Tate Modern will host a huge exhibition of the best Joan Miro paintings from the 14th of April to the 11th of September. The early news on the London Miro exhibition have promised over 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints from moments across the six decades of his extraordinary career. There is a full coverage of his life and it is hoped that this exhibition will offer more space for each visitor after problems with other recent Tate Modern exhibitions.

Joan Miro over the course of his life had great changes in mood and aspirations for his art, and this is reflected in the diversity of this exhibition that attempts to educate more than the usual artistic retrospective which normally concentrate solely on grabbing headlines with specific art works.

Bleu II is a well known painting from the career of Joan Miro, and features his typical abstract style of dots and dashes of paint in bold primary colours that leave a simple finish, differentiating hugely from traditional art methods that Miro was very much against. Bleu II is particularly popular as a reproduction copy, with many Joan Miro fans choosing it in the forms of art prints, posters and stretched canvases for their own homes with this abstract style suiting most contemporary homes.

Joan Miro is remembered as a true revolutionary within art and he originally came from Barcelona which has produced some of the most influential minds within European contemporary arts. There are numerous influences at any one time in this key Spanish city and as such it was easy for Miro to try out a whole array of art movements, with him being most respected for his work within the fields of painting, sculpture, murals and ceramics.

Kopf above features the frequent colour combination of Joan Miro with reds and black sitting menacingly together. Kopf for this reason has become another common choice for reproduction for fans of Miro's career, who can typically be found all across Europe and North America. It is the intention of this homepage of Joanmiro.co.uk to offer as varied content as possible and feature each of the different combinations of colour used by Miro.

Barcelona was the birthplace of Miro and also a city of which he was very fond, becoming inspired by it's rich heritage within the arts that continues to be strong today. A fundamental part of the city's prestige is it's football club of FC Barcelona and the painting above indicates how Miro combined it's iconic team badge into one of his paintings which was seen as a gift to the people of his favourite city which currently holds the largest collection of his career works.

Milano in Italy was another city featured by Miro and that painting is shown above. It follows a similar style to his art work on FC Barcelona though without a badge this time. Joan Miro used black to contrast against his primary colours and this approach was continued throughout a long period of his career once he had settled on a modern art abstract direction.

Carnival of Harlequin

Red Sun

Singing Fish

Femme Assise

Peinture Composition

List of Famous Joan Miro Paintings

The best paintings by Miro are included within this homepage, and see below for a summarised list of the most important paintings to have come from his career.

• Dog Barking at the Moon
• Night
• Torso
• Oro dell Azzurro
• Femme
• Vuelo de Pajaros
• Obra
• Terre Labouree
• Lune Verte
• Peinture Composition
• Femme Assise
• Singing Fish
• Red Sun
• Carnival of Harlequin
• Bleu II
• Barcelona
• Kopf
• Milano
• Melancholic Singer

List of Joan Miro's Areas of Expertise

Joan Miro was skilled in many different fields and took influences from others within native Barcelona and also from beyond the city's boundaries. Find a list below of the most important fields in which Joan Miro gained academic approval.

• Painting
• Sculpture
• Mural
• Ceramics

Further Joan Miro Paintings

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