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Joan Miró

1893–1983

Head of a Catalan Peasant 1925
© Successió Miro/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2002
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Biography

Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mi-ROH, US also mee-ROH; 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.

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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  • Untitled

    Joan Miró
    1964
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  • Women and Bird in the Moonlight

    Joan Miró
    1949
  • The Matador

    Joan Miró
    1969
  • The Great Carnivore

    Joan Miró
    1969
  • The Conductor

    Joan Miró
    1976
  • Series II

    Joan Miró
    1952
  • Composition

    Joan Miró
    1947
  • Constellations

    Joan Miró
    1959
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  • Mort

    R.B. Kitaj
    1966
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