Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà i ...

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It has long been known to observers of the modern movement in art that the central pattern of its aesthetic development has been that of a dialectic in which every heretical impulse has served as the ...

Joan Miro is one of the most renowned painters of the 20th century. Now a major exhibition in Frankfurt celebrates the artist who once declared he wanted to "kill painting." The Catalan artist Joan ...

After just a few steps in the brightly lit, spacious rooms of the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, which has mounted this exhibition of works by Joan Miró, we were already wondering which other ...

In 1927, Spanish artist Joan Miró declared, "I want to assassinate painting." Miró spent the next 10 years shattering and subverting the conventions of art through collage, construction and, yes, ...

In 1927, Joan Miro (1893-1983) claimed he wanted to “assassinate” painting. Eventually he hit upon sculpture as a means of doing it. The 14 small-scale sculptures in “Sculptures of Joan Miro from the ...