Joan Miró (1893 - 1983)
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
| Date and place of birt: | 20 april 1893, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Date and place of death: | 25 december 1983, Palma de Mallorca, Spain |
| Nationality: | Spain |
| Period of activity: | XIX, XX century |
| Specialization: | Painter, Sculptor, Ceramist, Artist, Graphic artist |
| Art school / group: | Agrupación Courbet |
| Art style: | Abstractionism, Cubist, Fauvism, Surrealism |
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