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Joan Miró
Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. 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.
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Born | Joan Miró i Ferrà (1893-04-20)20 April 1893 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
Died | 25 December 1983(1983-12-25) (aged 90) Palma, Mallorca, Spain |
Education | Escola de Belles Arts de la Lotja and Escola d'Arte de Francesc Galí, Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc, 1907–1913 |
Known for | Painting, sculpture, mural and ceramics |
Movement | Surrealism |
Spouse |
Pilar Juncosa Iglésias
(m. 1929) |
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Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism.[4] 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.[5]