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1980 Gold Medal of Fine Arts, Spain. Signature. Joan Miró i Ferrà ( / mɪˈroʊ / mi-ROH, [1] US also / miːˈroʊ / mee-ROH, [2] [3] Catalan: [ʒuˈan miˈɾoj fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona. Professionally, he was simply known as Joan Miró.
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- Although he was uncomfortable aligning himself with “isms,” Miró is regarded as one of the most important Surrealists. Shortly after moving to Paris in 1920, Miró befriended André Breton,Max Ernst, Jean Arp, André Masson and others associated with Dada and Surrealism.
- An erstwhile accounting clerk, Miró devoted himself to art after suffering a nervous breakdown. While he began studying fine arts at an early age, Miró’s parents hoped that their son would pursue a career in finance.
- His first gallery show was a disaster. Miró’s studies with Francesc Galí brought him into the orbit of the Galeries Dalmau, a burgeoning artistic center in Barcelona.
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, he disliked art critics. Speaking with biographer Walter Erben, Miró expressed a withering opinion of those he described as “more concerned with being philosophers than anything else.
Feb 14, 2018 · Loosely adapted from a postcard he bought at the Rijksmuseum rather than the original, Miró’s work rejected Sorgh’s naturalism and depth with a clever surrealist nod to Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. (1919), a work that itself was famously based on a postcard of the Mona Lisa.
Pilar Juncosa. Pilar Juncosa Iglesias, Joan Miró’s wife and benefactor, was born in Palma in 1904. Her parents, Lambert Juncosa and Enriqueta Iglesias, were originally from Catalonia and her mother had family ties to Miró’s grandmother, since they were cousins.
- Spanish
- April 20, 1893
- Barcelona, Spain
- December 25, 1983
- The Farm. A dramatically tilted picture plane presents a view of the artist's masia or "family farm," thronging with animals, farm implements, plants, and evidence of human activity.
- Harlequin's Carnival. This painting depicts a festive and crowded scene where quixotic biomorphs seem to be caught up in a lively celebration. Every form both evokes resemblances and refuses them, as at center left, the harlequin, identified by the black and white checks of the costume of the Italian commedia dell'arte's stock figure, has a body shaped like a distorted guitar.
- Dog Barking at the Moon. In a spare landscape that is both Surrealistic and humorously cartoonish, divided between rich chocolate earth and a black night sky, a whimsically distorted dog, depicted in bright colors, barks up at the moon above him.
- Dutch Interior (I) This painting is based on Hendrick Martensz Sorgh's Lute Player (1661), a Dutch Golden Age genre painting showing a domestic interior where a young man with a small dog at his feet serenades a young woman who seems unimpressed, as a cat looks out from under the table.
Mar 4, 2019 · Miró joined the Surrealist group in 1924. He was a modest man—preferring life with his wife and their daughter in the Catalan town of Mont-roig—given to immodest pronouncements, in the era ...
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Around 1924 Joan Miró approached the Surrealist avant-garde, which forever conditioned his style. From this moment on, his works became colored with polychrome and imaginative images, in which Catalan subjects were replaced by lively carnivalesque creatures.
