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Joan Miró

1893–1983

Head of a Catalan Peasant 1925
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Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mi-ROH, US also mee-ROH, Catalan: [ʒuˈam miˈɾoj fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. Professionally, he was simply known as Joan Miró. 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.

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  • Joan Miró Untitled

    1964
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  • Joan Miró Women and Bird in the Moonlight

    1949
    On display at Tate St Ives part of Modern Art and St Ives
  • Joan Miró The Matador

    1969
  • Joan Miró The Great Carnivore

    1969
    On display at Tate Liverpool part of Ideas Depot
  • Joan Miró The Conductor

    1976
  • Joan Miró Series II

    1952
  • Joan Miró Composition

    1947
  • Joan Miró Constellations

    1959
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  • R.B. Kitaj Mort

    1966
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    Desmond Morris on Joan Miró

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    Joan Miró: Retrospective

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    Joan Miró: A Retrospective

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    MixTate: Kara-Lis Coverdale on Joan Miró

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