Hands flying off toward the constellations explained
Hands flying off toward the constellations |
Other Language 1: | Catalan |
Other Title 1: | Mans volant cap a les constel·lacions |
Artist: | Joan Miró |
Year: | 1974 |
Height Metric: | 260.5 |
Width Metric: | 681 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
City: | Barcelona |
Museum: | Fundació Joan Miró |
Hands flying off toward the constellations is a painting by Joan Miró dated 19 January 1974. It is now shown at the Fundació Joan Miró, in Barcelona. The artist gave the work to the Foundation in the same month that it opened to the public on 10 June 1975.[1]
Background
Rosa Maria Malet says of these works:
As for the technical execution Miró explains himself (as Taillandier reported in 1974)
Exhibitions
- 1974. Paris. Grand Palais.[2]
- 1975. Barcelona. Foundation.[3]
The exhibition L'escala de l'evasió that opened in October 2011 was supported by access to Wikipedia using QRpedia codes that allowed access to visitors in Catalan, English and several other languages.[4]
References
- Web site: Information about the work the Foundation website . 2011-11-13 . Miró Foundation .
- cat. not. 186
- cat. no.86.
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Mir%C3%B3-L%27escala_de_l%27evasi%C3%B3._Entrada_a_l%27exposici%C3%B3-_QRpedia_codes.jpg?uselang=ca Photo at opening day of the exhibition
Further reading
- Book: Cirici, A . Miró Mirror . Polígrafa . Barcelona . 1977 . no. 45, p.60.
- Book: Clavero, Jordi.J . Fundació Joan Miró. Foundation's Guide . 2010 . Polígrafa . Barcelona . 978-84-343-1242-5 .
- Book: Dupin, j . Miró . Flammarion . Paris . 1993 . no. 365, pp 336–337.
- Book: Gimferrer, P. . Miró, strike without sore . Polígrafa . Barcelona . 1978 . no.2, p.8.
- Book: Gimferrer, P. . The roots of Miró . Polígrafa . Barcelona . 1993 . no.1081, p.394.
- Book: Malet, MR . Works by Joan Miró . Fundació Joan Miró . Barcelona . 1988 . no. 1196, p.320.
- Book: Miró 1956-1983. Feeling, emotion, gesture. . Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation . Barcelona . 24 November 2006 – 25 February 2007 . 16.