Fundació Joan Miró

Fundació Joan Miró
Miró Foundation

Fundacion Miro Museum
Established 1975
Location Montjuïc in Barcelona
Director Rosa Maria Malet
Public transit access Montjunc Funicular
Website Fundació Joan Miró website

The Fundation Joan Miró, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani (Joan Miró Foundation) is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró and located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia.

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History

The idea for the foundation was made in 1968 by Joan Miró. Miró formed the foundation with his friend Joan Prats.[1] Miró wanted to create a new building that would encourage particularly younger artists to experiment with contemporary art. The building was designed by Josep Lluís Sert to ensure that this work could also be made available to the public and exhibited. He designed the building with courtyards and terraces and to create a natural path for visitors to move through the building.

Building began on the mountain of Montjuïc and the foundation opened on 10 June 1975. Not only was the architect a close friend of Miro but so was the first president Joaquim Gomis and Miro was amongst the first board. It was claimed that the new foundation represented a new way of viewing the concept of a museum and how the people of Barcelona could relate to their cultural heritage.[2]

4 Wings by Alexander Calder in the garden

Expansion in 1986 to the building added an auditorium and a library which holds some of the 10,000 items in the Foundation and Miro's collection.

Works by Joan Miró

Many of the works in the building were donated by the artist himself.[3]

Highlights include:
  • The wing of the lark ... , 1967
  • Hermitage of San Juan Huerta, 1917
  • Street Pedralbes , 1917
  • Portrait of a boy , 1919
  • Painting (the white gloves), 1925
  • Flame in space and Naked woman, 1932
  • Character, 1934
  • Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, 1935
  • Naked woman climbing a staircase, 1937
  • No, 1937
  • The Morning Star, 1940
  • Barcelona Series, 1944
  • The Diamond smiles at twilight, 1947-1948
  • The Caress of a Bird, 1967
  • The gold of the azure, 1967
  • Painting on white to a solitary cell I, II, III , 1968
  • Figure in front of the sun , 1968
  • Catalan peasant by moonlight, 1968
  • Project for a monument to the city (moon, sun and star) , 1968
  • Character, 1970, May 1968 , 1968-1973

Collection

In line with Miro's original idea the Foundation has a space named "Espai 13" which is dedicated to promoting the work of young experimental artists. Although there is also work by Peter Greenaway, Chillida , Rene Magritte , Rothko , Tapies and Saura. The collection includes Alexander Calder's 4 Wings and Mercury Fountain. The Mercury Fountain is a fountain that uses the liquid metal mercury to create a fountain. As mercury is poisonous the fountain is kept behild glass to protect the visitors.[3]

The museum uses QRpedia to allow visitors to read Wikipedia articles about objects in the collection, translated into their preferred language.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bryant, Sue (2008). Barcelona p.78. pp. 128. ISBN 9781847731043. http://books.google.com/?id=7ludiFDsVa4C&dq=%22barcelona+series%22+miro. 
  2. ^ Sert. P.8
  3. ^ a b Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona.de, accessed September 2011
  4. ^ Hinojo, Alex (2011-05-11). "QRpedia Codes at Fundació Joan Miró". The GLAM-Wiki Experience. http://theglamwikiexperience.blogspot.com/2011/05/qrpedia-codes-at-fundacio-joan-miro.html. Retrieved 25 August 2011. 

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Coordinates: 41°22′07″N 2°09′36″E / 41.36861°N 2.16°E / 41.36861; 2.16


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