Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Moonbird
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Moonbird
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Alternate Title:
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Oiseau lunaire
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Image View:
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Context view in Sabatini Sculpture Garden
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Creator:
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Joán Miró (Spanish sculptor, 1893-1983)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) DE00041
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Location Note:
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52 Santa Isabel Street
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GPS:
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+40.408889-3.694444
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Date:
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1944-1946 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Spanish
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Style Period:
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Surrealist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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bronze
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Measurements:
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234 cm (height) x 210 cm (width) x 150 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; animal; birds
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Description:
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In the 1940s, Joan Miró approached sculpture from a similar standpoint to that which had first attracted him to the discipline in the middle of the surrealist period in Paris. His purpose, however, had changed: his inspiration was more markedly oneiric and his subject matter connected to the cosmic world. In Oiseau lunaire (Moonbird), the first version of which dates from 1946-1949, one can see the legacy of the nature-based organic forms so closely associated with one section of early surrealist sculpture, particularly that of Jean Arp, but with a subject area that was typical of the Catalan painter, referring equally to the Constellations series done during Second World War and to the world of birds, which Miró saw as the connection between the terrestrial and celestial worlds. (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MIRO-SRS-LBM-A07
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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