With nearly 100 artworks, paintings, gouaches, drawings, ceramic pieces and sculptures, the exhibition explores the life-long influence of historical art in the work of Joan Miró (1893 – 1983). This includes Primitivism, Romanesque art, Italian and Dutch Renaissance, 17th century Dutch Golden Age, Japanese painting and calligraphy, to modernist movements such as Fauvism and Cubism.
The exhibition’s in-depth analysis offers a better understanding of Miró’s work, best known for his surrealist-themed imagery. The exhibited works show how his naïve, child-like style hides a profound intellectual sophistication and meticulous research methods, broken down into an artistic code of symbols – visual metaphors of gestures and complex relationships.
Alongside important loans from prestigious institutions including Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Fundació Joan Miró, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Fondation Maeght, LaM, and Galerie Lelong & Co., the exhibition also features a rich selection of art history books, objects and museum postcards sent by the artist to his friends between the late 1910s and early 1930s.
