Roberta Griffith

Mural of the Moon

CERAMIC COLLABORATION of JOSEP LLORENS i ARTIGAS and MIRÓ i FERRÀ

By ROBERTA GRIFFITH | Artist, Professor Emerita Hartwick College, Oneonta NY (United States)

Josep Llorens i Artigas and Joan Miró i Ferrà were born in the Catalan city of Barcelona, Spain; Artigas in 1892, Miró in 1893. As young men, they met in 1912, while both were attending art schools in Barcelona. Their collaboration in ceramics from 1944 through 1970 produced unique vessels, plaques, sculptures and large ceramic tile walls. These works by painter/printmaker Joan Miró and ceramist Josep Llorens Artigas, along with his son Joan Gardy Artigas, were unprecedented in the history of ceramics, transcending the conventional limits defining ceramics up to that time. What follows is an overview of the remarkable collaboration of Artigas and Miró.

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ROBERTA GRIFFITH

Roberta Griffith received her BFA in 1960, at Chouinard Art Institute, and my MFA in 1962, at SIU-Carbondale. She is an art educator, and practicing artist, exhibiting ceramics, drawing, painting, printmaking, hot glass, and mixed-media installation art nationally and internationally in 34 solo shows and 250 invitational and juried shows. 

 

Her artwork is included in major museums, public and private collections in Spain, Mexico, Italy, England, Sweden, Japan and the USA. She is the North American correspondent for Cerámica Magazine, Madrid, Spain.

 

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