Study

second half of the 1920s

A language of signs and ideograms

In “Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird” and “Dog Barking at the Moon” (both 1926) a set of recurrent ideograms took shape: symbols of space — horizon, waves, heavenly bodies — and “mediating symbols” — birds, a ladder to the sky, an eye, an ear, a figure with giant feet.

12 October 1929

Marries Pilar Juncosa

In Palma de Mallorca Miró married Pilar Juncosa, a native of the island.

from the 1930s

The “assassination of painting”

From the 1930s Miró said in interviews that he despised conventional painting methods as props of bourgeois society and declared an “assassination of painting”. Against Cubism, by then an established form, he vowed to “break their guitar”, meaning Picasso's.

17 luglio 1930

Daughter born: Maria Dolors Miró

17 July 1930

Birth of his daughter María Dolores

Miró and Pilar had a daughter, María Dolores.

1931

The Pierre Matisse Gallery introduces Miró to America

Pierre Matisse opened a gallery in New York and represented Miró from the outset, exhibiting his work often and introducing it to the American market.