15 March 2012 Last updated at 10:14

Miro sculptures exhibited in UK

The first major UK exhibition of sculpture by Catalan artist Joan Miro, who, during his career produced around 400 sculptures and a similar number of ceramics, is on display at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield.

Miro is quoted as saying: “May my sculptures be confused with elements of nature, tree, rocks, roots, mountains, plants, flowers."

The exhibition displays works from 1946 through to 1982, and includes Miro’s “phantasmagoric world of living monsters”.

This work, called Femme Monument, was created in 1970. It was around this time that he was completing major commissions, including Lune, Soleil et une Etoile, later renamed for Brunswick Building Plaza in Chicago.

Many private family artefacts, drawings, models and photographs accompany the artist's sculptures at the exhibition.

Miro created this work Personnage in 1970

Miro believed his sculpture should depict everyday objects, so the exhibition displays raw bronze constructions of things like mannequins, dolls, rustic vessels and discarded cans.

Miro was also a celebrated painter and ceramicist.

Miro suffered from heart disease and passed away at his home in Majorca in 1983. The exhibition runs from 17 March to 6 January 2013.

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