My Favorite Surrealists: Focus on Joan Miro

The Lark's Wing, Encircled with Golden Blue, Rejoins the Heart of the Poppy Sleeping on a Diamond-studded Meadow, 1967, Oil on canvas

Dancer, 1925, Oil on cardboard

Ladders Cross the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire, 1953, Oil on canvas

The Farm, 1921-1922, Oil on canvas

Quick trivia for those who are too lazy to read the links below, The Farm was bought by Ernest Hemingway for 5,000 francs.  He loved the painting so much and actually said "I would not trade it for any picture in the world. It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there. No one else has been able to paint those two opposing things."

The Garden, 1925

If you want to learn more about Joan Miro, here are useful links:


http://www.joan-miro.info/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/mar/20/joan-miro-life-ladder-escape-tate
http://kateri.blog.com/2010/10/25/joan-miro-the-garden-1925-prades-the-village-1917/
http://joanmiro.com/
http://www.arthistoryguide.com/Joan_Miro.aspx
http://fundaciomiro-bcn.org/fundaciojoanmiro.php?idioma=2

Miro:  Sculptor by Michal Boncza
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/117684


Whole New Dimension:  Miró’s sculptures reveal how the challenge of a new medium
inspired the artist in his final years 
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a7afc2f4-7296-11e1-9be9-00144feab49a.html#axzz1rnQQ6P5P