With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miro
(1893-1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing
masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and
ceramics, and embracing ideologies as varied as Fauvism,
Surrealism, Dada, Magic Realism, Cubism, and abstraction. Over the
course of his prodigious output, Miro evolved constantly, seeking
to eschew categorization and the approval of "bourgeois" art
critics as much as he pursued his own dreamlike worlds. Emerging
into the public spotlight in the early 1920s, he first experimented
with Fauvism and Cubism before developing a distinctive style of
symbols and pictograms, arranged in elusive visual narratives, with
frequent reference to Catalan life. As his career progressed, Miro
moved towards Surrealism, and, despite never fully identifying with
the movement, emerged as one of its most celebrated practitioners
with techniques including automated drawing, Lyrical Abstraction,
and Color Field painting. In later years, he diversified his media
further, working with ceramics, textiles, and even proposing
sculptures made of gas. Through his vivid colors, dreamlike
fantasies, and enigmatic symbols, this book brings together the
numerous strands of Miro's kaleidoscopic oeuvre to introduce his
fascinating career, its interaction with major modernist movements,
and how it made him into a modernist legend. About the series Born
back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the
best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in
TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological
summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her
cultural and historical importance a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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