Femme Debout
Miró, Joán
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Alternative Title
Standing Woman
Date
1969Description
Detail , head and upper torso; 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. In Femme Debout these forms have become simplified, on a larger scale. This is cast two of four. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/21/2012)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)Subject
abstraction, contemporary (1960 to present), human figure, nude in art, Surrealist, Twentieth century
Rights
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