Joan Miró
Painting, Visual Artist
1893 – 1983
Who was Joan Miró?
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan 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 de Mallorca in 1981.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and 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 famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
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- Born
- Apr 20, 1893
Barcelona - Also known as
- Joan Miro
- Joan Miró
- Joan Miró i Ferrà
- Parents
- Spouses
- Pilar Juncosa
(1929/10/12 - 1983/12/25)
- Pilar Juncosa
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Spanish people
- Nationality
- Spain
- Profession
- Education
- Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc
Art
- Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc
- Lived in
- Barcelona
- Died
- Dec 25, 1983
Palma, Majorca - Resting place
- Montjuïc Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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