Joan Miro
(April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) |
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Art Work
| Name: |
Joan Miro |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Barcelona, Spain |
| Nationality: |
Spanish |
| Birth: |
April 20, 1893 |
| Death: |
December 25, 1983 |
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Quick Facts
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Painting, Sculpture, Mural, Ceramics |
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| Style: |
Surrealism, Dada, Personal, Experimental |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
Sculptor
Muralist |
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Biography
Joan Miro was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona. At the age of 27, he moved to Paris, France to escape the fascist regime of Franco. Under the influence of the Parisian art scene, Miro developed an artistic style characteristic for its organic shapes and use of sexual symbols. In 1926, he worked with Max Ernst to develop the method of grattage, whereby dry paint was scraped from his canvas. Although Miro worked primarily in painting, near the end of his life, he began exploring different media as well--particularly ceramics and window paintings. In 1974, he produced a tapestry for the World Trade Center, and in 1978 he completed his only glass mosaic mural, Personnage Oiseaux, for the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art in Kansas.
"Form for me is never something abstract," Miro once said. "It is always a token of something... For me, form is never an end in itself." Although Miro's work is usually considered to be Surrealist today, the artist refused to align with any artistic movement so as not to restrict his own creativity. Indeed, Miro often spoke of the "assassination of art," and he particularly delighted in breaking the norms of established painting, which the artist regarded as distastefully "bourgeois." |
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