"Six months before his momentous first trip to the United States, Joan Miró sent a letter to his New York City gallerist, Pierre Matisse. Writing from repressive Francoist Spain in the austere aftermath of the Second World War, the Catalan artist was searching for new frontiers. "In the future world, America, with its energy and vitality, must play a leading role," he told Matisse." I have to be in New York to be in direct, personal contact with your country; my work will benefit from that shock.""
"That idea is at the center of Miró and the United States at the Fundació Joan Miró. While a 1982 exhibition highlighted Miró's sizable influence on American artists, this one asserts that the US was actually a place of intense creative exchange. Accordingly, Miró's work is presented alongside that of 48 US-based artists he met, collaborated with, or otherwise impacted during his seven visits to the country between 1947 and 1968."
Six months before his first trip to the United States, Joan Miró wrote to his New York gallerist Pierre Matisse from Francoist Spain, saying America, with its energy and vitality, must play a leading role and that being in New York would provide a shock beneficial to his work. Miró and the United States at the Fundació Joan Miró pairs nearly 140 Miró works with pieces by 48 US-based artists he met, collaborated with, or influenced during seven visits between 1947 and 1968. The exhibition traces Miró's US trajectory from his 1920s debut to later public commissions in Chicago, Houston, and other major cities, and reunites the two works that first introduced him to US audiences in 1926.
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