Barcelona

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Fundació Joan Miró

Parc de Montjuïc

Josep Lluís Sert, who spent the years of the dictatorship as Dean of Architecture at Harvard University, designed one of the world’s great museum buildings on his return. Approachable, light and airy, these white walls and arches house a collection of more than 225 paintings, 150 sculptures and all of Miró’s graphic work, plus some 5,000 drawings. The permanent collection, highlighting Miró’s trademark use of primary colours and simplified organic forms symbolising stars, the moon, birds and women, occupies the second half of the space. On the way to the sculpture gallery is Alexander Calder’s lovely reconstructed Mercury Fountain, which was originally seen at the Spanish Republic’s Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Fair. In other works, Miró is shown as a Cubist (Street in Pedralbes, 1917), Naïve (Portrait of a Young Girl, 1919) or Surrealist (Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, 1935). Downstairs are works donated to the museum by 20th-century artists. In the upper galleries large, black-outlined paintings from the final period precede a room of works with political themes.

Event highlights Carles Santos, the multi-disciplined Valencian artist (23 June 2006-5 Nov 2006); ‘Miró, the final years’ (Nov 2006-Feb 2007).

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