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Apr 16, 2024 · Joan Miró (born April 20, 1893, Barcelona, Spain—died December 25, 1983, Palma, Majorca) was a Catalan painter who combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. His mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life.
- 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.
Though often pigeonholed as a Surrealist, the Catalan modernist Joan Miró considered his art to be free of any “ism.” He experimented feverishly throughout his career with different media—painting, pastel, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, collage, muralism, and tapestry—and unconventional materials as a way of making work that ...
Joan Miró was among the first artists to develop automatic drawing as a way to undo previous established techniques in painting, and thus, with André Masson, represented the beginning of Surrealism as an art movement. However, Miró chose not to become an official member of the Surrealists to be free to experiment with other artistic styles ...
- Joan Miró i Ferrà, 20 April 1893, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Surrealism
- 25 December 1983 (aged 90), Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Feb 14, 2018 · Before the groundbreaking Surrealist painters Salvador Dalí or René Magritte, Joan Miró helped to give visual definition to the young movement, influencing generations of artists to come. Who Was Joan Miró?
Jan 26, 2022 · Joan Miró did not paint in any specific art style or art movement, in fact, he drew from various art styles like Fauvism and Surrealism, among others. He was a multifaceted artist. Miró was famous for creating biomorphic shapes in his paintings that appeared half abstracted and half real.
Jan 18, 2019 · Joan Miró I Ferrà (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) was one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. He was a leading light of the Surrealist Movement and later developed a highly recognizable idiosyncratic style.
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