
Joan MiróSpanje, 1893–1983Mag men het zien?
New York, Verenigde Staten
Het hoort bij de collectie, maar is momenteel niet tentoongesteld.
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 juli 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.