Joan Miró: Poetes, Sculpteurs, Peintres - Galerie Maeght
Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983
1960
A lithograph poster by Joan Miró made to announce a 1960 show at Galerie Maeght, where he translates the idea of poets, sculptors, and painters into a single playful visual statement of color, mark-making, and typography.
You immediately notice the childlike immediacy—bold red, yellow, green and blue color blobs and a chalky black oval, crossed by looping scribbles and staggered stenciled letters that seem to dance across the page.
The work shows how Miró blurred fine art and graphic design, using artist-made posters and lithography to bring surreal, biomorphic abstraction into public view and influence how exhibitions are promoted visually.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
26 5/16 x 17 3/16" (66.8 x 43.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Peter Stone Collection of Posters by Artists
Accession
453.1976
Palette
Exhibitions
