Where to See Joan Miró

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About Joan Miró

Spanish · 1893–1983 · Surrealism

Wanted to murder painting, spent sixty years making paintings instead, and was called the most Surrealist of all by Breton.

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Joan Miró's works are held in 2 museums worldwide.

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🇪🇸 Spain

1 museum

🇺🇸 United States

1 museum

Frequently Asked Questions

  • When did joan miro became famous?
    Joan Miró Ferra was born in Barcelona on April 20, 1893. At the age of fourteen he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja, the academy of fine arts in the same city.
  • Why is joan miro famous?
    Joan Miró was the best pure painter among the Surrealists. His art is a free, lyrical mixture of folk tales, eroticism, sardonic humour, farmhouse scat-talk, and grotesque absurdity.
  • Is joan miro abstract?
    The relationship between Joan Miró's painting and nature has not been clarified. Some painters do not want their abstract paintings to suggest a literal scene.
  • Was joan miro a surrealist?
    Joan Miró fell in with the Surrealists in Paris in 1920. André Breton called him 'the most Surrealist of us all'.
  • Joan miro artwork style?
    Joan Miró's style drew on automatism. He also invented a vocabulary of signs and symbols to free the unconscious mind.
  • What was joan miro art style?
    Joan Miró developed a style that sprang from his own feelings, drawing on automatism. Closely associated with Surrealism, Joan Miró i Ferrà invented a vocabulary of signs and symbols to free the unconscious mind.
  • Joan miro paintings style?
    In 1925, Joan Miró's work took a decisive turn, stimulated by hunger-induced hallucinations involving his impressions of poetry. These resulted in the artist's 'dream paintings'.

Sources

Where to See guide aggregates verified holdings of Joan Miró's works across the following collections.

  1. [1] book guggenheim-guhe00solo Used for: biography.
  2. [2] book guggenheim-handboo00pegg Used for: biography.
  3. [3] book Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, 1980 Used for: biography.

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