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''His Highness the Prince'' is an object-sculpture made by Joan Miró in 1974 and now part of the permanent collection of the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona. == Background == ''His Highness the Prince'', with ''Her Majesty the Queen'' and ''His Majesty the King'' are part of a series of sculptures made in 1974 when Miró lived a moment of international recognition. During that year a major retrospective of his work was shown at the ''Grand Palais'' and the ''Museé d'Art Moderne'', in Paris, where these three works would be exhibited for the first time. Two years before, the exhibition ''Magnetic Fields'' had been held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and ''Miró bronzes'' at the Hayward Gallery of London. It was also the year of construction of the future Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, opened to the public on 10 June 1975. This situation of international artistic recognition contrasts with the hard situation in Spain during the last years of the dictatorship. In February of the same year Miró had painted the triptych ''The hope of a condemned Man'', concerned about the conviction of the activist Salvador Puig Antich, finally executed in garrotte on 2 March 1974. Juan Carlos de Borbón, then ''Prince of Spain'', was 5 years old who had sworn allegiance to Francisco Franco as his future successor as head of the state. Miró had created artworks that were critical with the concept of authority, around the character ''Ubu Roi'' back in 1966. The bombast of the celebrity in these works contrasts with the humility of their materials, and the same contrast can be seen in ''His Highness the Prince''. After Franco had died, Miró talked about the civic responsibility of the artist during his acceptance speech for an ''Honorary degree'' at the University of Barcelona in 1979: . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「His Highness the Prince」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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