Joan Miro’s Influence on Modern Graphic Design
From Miro's Bleu Series
This from the Museum of Modern Art
Reflecting upon the recent exhibition Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937, this lecture explores the profound influence that Miro’s unconventional painting, collage, and assemblage techniques have had on graphic design in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Celebrated American graphic designer Paul Rand, for example, consistently utilized Miro’s oeuvre as a point of departure for creative design assignments for students. Through a comparison of Miro’s works with those of Rand and other designers, this lecture considers how Miro’s revolutionary approach effectively altered the formal language of communication design. Listen to the audio
Lecturer Marianne Eggler, (MPhil, The Graduate Center, City University of New York) is a historian of art, architecture, and design. She is completing her doctorate at The Graduate Center and is currently a lecturer at Parsons The New School of Design, CUNY John Jay College, and The Museum of Modern Art.
