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Mercury Fountain, Miro Foundation

I thought I’d share a couple of little clips I took on my visit to the Fundació Joan Miró last week, one is a few of and from the rooftop, which is dotted with various sculptures, and the other is a fascinating mercury fountain created by Alexander Calder. And don’t worry, it’s enclosed in a glass case!

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Posted in Art, Barcelona with tags Fundació Joan Miró, Joan Miró, Parc de Montjuïc on June 28, 2024 by telescoper

My time in Barcelona is rapidly drawing to a close so I thought I’d spend the morning visiting the Fundació Joan Miró, which is situated in the Parc de Montjuïc with excellent views of the City. Quite apart from the strange and wonderful collection of things inside, it’s just a beautiful space to wander around; there’s a sense of light and space which is very refreshing. It took no longer than 30 minutes to reach it from my apartment, via the Metro L3 and the funicular railway from Parallel which takes you within 5 minutes’ walk of the building.

As well as the permanent collection of works by Joan Miró, there are pieces that influenced his development as an artist, such as the 14th Century altarpiece shown above: in his early years, Miró experimented with the very flat perspective often deployed in mediaeval art. The exhibition includes a large range of materials, including sailcloth and wool as well as the more usual oil and canvas; there’s also a mercury fountain. There is also a temporary exhibition by Vietnamese sculptor Tuan Andrew Nguyen whose creations include dynamic shapes evoking explosions made from fragments of unexploded bombs found in his homeland in the aftermath of the Vietnam war.

Museu Picasso

Posted in Art, Barcelona with tags Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Joan Miro, Museo Picasso, Pablo Picasso on December 13, 2023 by telescoper

I was delighted to receive from a certain person an early Christmas gift in the form of tickets to the Museo Picasso in Barcelona. I took this morning off so that the two of us could visit the exhibition. As well as the permanent collection, including many early works of by Picasso, we saw a special exhibition juxtaposing works by Picasso and Joan Miró (who was a great admirer of Picasso). The influence of the former on the latter is very clear when you see the works together, though they remain stylistically very separate. This part of the exhibition is shared between the Museo Picasso and the La Fundación Joan Miró, which is a clever way of getting people to visit both museums. Some works by Miró included The Farm shown in the gallery below – have been moved to the Picasso Museum in the centre of Barcelona and some works by Picasso have been moved to Montjuic where the Miro Foundation is located; my visit there will have to wait until I return after the Christmas break.

The permanent collection in Museo Picasso seems like an exhibition of work by many different artists. It starts off with paintings and drawings he did while still a teenager (like the one I posted here), an art student, and then many works done when he had moved to Paris at the end of the 19th Century. These show him absorbing many influences and mastering many techniques before he found his own original approach. Most of paintings he made becoming famous are elsewhere, but there are examples of later work (including ceramics) in this gallery. The evolution of Picasso’s art is amazing to see.

Here is a selection of what can be seen