Meijer Sculpture Gardens

Meijer Sculpture Gardens

Lawrence Technological University

June 13, 2017

Woman and Bird

Miró, Joan

Aluzzo, Adrienne (photograph)

Spanish

Visual Works

1959

Michigan (state)

Grand Rapids (inhabited place)

Surrealist

Modern (style or period)

women (female humans)

public sculpture

View of "Woman and Bird" by Spanish artist, Joan Miró at the Meijer Sculpture Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "The imaginative nature of Joan Miro’s repertoire is widely admired. Although associated with 20th century Surrealism, his long career was highly individualized. Unlike his paintings and prints, most of Miro’s sculptures began with simple found objects transformed nearly beyond recognition to create another form or figure. In Woman and Bird for example, the body of the figure derives from an old milk stool and the head from the lid of a can. Shared with his two-dimensional works, his sculptures are frequently brightly painted vibrant colors contributing to the visual energy, even playfulness, of the work"--Meijer Sculpture Gardens website.

bronze (metal)

49 x 18.62 x 16.5 inches

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