Joan Miro and Salvador Dali are two of the artists from the surrealist movement whose work has survived till today. Salvador Dali, with his flamboyant lifestyle, is best remembered. The word ‘surrealism’ brings to mind his dreamy half realistic work with dripping clocks and elephants on stilts. Joan Miro’s work was more abstract in nature, using nearly primary colors and shapes like lines and circles.Yet both were artists in the surrealism movement of the 1920′s. Gathered on this page you will find two poster calendars featuring their work.
Poster calendars are distinguished by their large posters and the lack of room to write down much. Still, each month you will find the dates of that month included. The pages in these large-format calendars are stunning enough to be framed and mounted on their own. The first two are published by teNeues and include multi-lingual introduction and a European linear calendarium. The exception is the Frida Kahlo de Rivera poster calendar. It’s published by the equally famous publisher Taschen.
$29.99 Dali 2011 Poster Calendar
$39.99 Miro 2011 Poster Calendar
Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954; born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón) was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán. Perhaps best known for her self-portraits, Kahlo’s work is remembered for its “pain and passion”, and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.
Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition figure prominently in her work, which has sometimes been characterized as Naïve art or folk art. Her work has also been described as “surrealist”, and in 1938 one surrealist described Kahlo herself as a “ribbon around a bomb”.
Kahlo had a stormy but passionate marriage with the prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered lifelong health problems, many of which stemmed from a traffic accident in her teenage years. These issues are reflected in her works, more than half of which are self-portraits of one sort or another. Kahlo suggested, “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
$24.99 Kahlo 2011 Poster Calendar
Joan Miro Poster Calendar 2010
Salvador Dali Poster Calendar 2010
