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New views of Joan Miró

Joan Miró ranks alongside Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí as one of the most influential Spanish artists of classical modernism. Using a formal vocabulary entirely his own, he created a wide-ranging oeuvre that is deeply infused with poetry. The Fondation Beyeler owns six paintings and one sculpture from different phases of Miró’s career. These works allow us to trace the evolution of Miró’s art, its breaks with the past and its new departures, and identify themes that occupied the artist throughout his life. The discussion centers in particular upon the paintings Landscape (Landscape with Rooster), Painting (The Fratellini Brothers) (both 1927) and Painting (1930), and the bronze sculpture Moon Bird (1966).

ANSICHTEN no. 13 takes an in-depth look at the work of Joan Miró. Detailed descriptions, technical data, special features, background information, and questions of interpretation all fall within the scope of this booklet.

ANSICHTEN is aimed at art lovers and teachers looking to engage in greater depth with the works of the Fondation Beyeler.

The journal also features a practical section, which presents ideas, tasks and experiments that may be carried out at the museum, at school or at home.

ANSICHTEN playfully provides readers with thorough knowledge of the works of the Beyeler Collection.