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MARCXML Record MODS Record Dublin Core Record LC-DIG-highsm-12363 (digital file from original) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Highsmith Archive.ġ transparency : color 4 x 5 in.
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Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.Ĭredit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This foundation is the first modern art foundation established in France.Ĭurated by Yoyo Maeght, who is a third generation Maeght Family member and spent most of his childhood with the artist, Joan Miró: Prints, Paintings and Sculptures from the Maeght Collection presents Miró's take on the post-war period with joyous and impassioned colors, as well as the recollections of a long-lasting friendship.Joan Miro's Personage and birds sculpture, Houston, Texasĭigital image produced by Carol M. With a view to create a liberal working environment for artists, the Maeght Family inaugurated the Maeght Foundation in 1964, with the aim of rekindling friendships it has formed with artists and intellectuals in the 1930s, prior to World War II. Among these, Miró always maintained a special place for the Family. Embracing hundreds of artists and intellectuals, the Maeght Family became their friends and patrons. Questioning life as well as art and offering unconventional perspectives, philosophical and artistic currents, movements such as Dadaism, Cubism, Surrealism, Automatism, and Existentialism developed in this period giving rise to the emergence of artists identifying themselves with these movements. Inspired by his close friend Miró, France’s then Minister of Culture André Malraux, who is remembered with much pride, carried the world of philosophy and literature to yet another level with an extensive recount of the art of this brilliant Catalan master in one of his books.
Miró illustrated Tzara’s book in 1947… Prévert describes Miró’s art through poetry… The attraction to the thriving city proves that art can only flourish in a free environment. During a time in which people were overtaken by surprise and joy, yet ready to embrace life and heal old wounds, Paris draw in artists like a powerful magnet. The art of the epoch develops immediately after modern art was denounced as irrational and degenerate by Hitler. Chillida, and Joan Miró, gather in Paris.
As the pain and devastation caused by World War II is slowly beginning to fade away, key figures who had a major impact on the development of intellectual history and art in today’s world, such as J.