Figure (Personnage) (Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA) 2005.116) : Detail, showing the top
- Creator:
- Miró, Joán, 1893-1983
- Published/Created:
- cast 1985 ; designed 1976 (design)
- Date Depicted:
- 7/17/2007
- Materials:
- bronze
- Notes:
- From 1966 Miró worked intensely on sculptures based principally on small objects, often objets trouvés, which he joined in surprising ways. Stones, branches and other objects discovered on his walks along the beach at Montroig, as well as manufactured items, were wedded in a spirit that still owed something to Surrealism but that also revealed his need for contact with nature and simple things, as also in bronzes such as Lunar Bird (1966; Philadelphia, PA, Mus. A.). An element of fun remains, particularly in brightly painted bronze sculptures cast from juxtaposed objects, such as Seated Woman and Child (1967; Barcelona, Fund. Miró), in which an ordinary chair acts as a stand-in for a figure.
- Topics:
- Sculpture -- Spain -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Twentieth century
- Culture:
- Spanish
- Accession Number:
- 6A1-MJ-F-A4
- Genre:
- sculpture (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
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- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- abstraction or non-objective; contemporary (1960 to present); abstracted human figure casting visual works; sculpture (visual work) abstracted face
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Module Four
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
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7/17/2007 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10109407
- PID:
- digcoll:1868475