Joan Miro - vendere e comprare opere
20 April 1893, Barcelona (Spain) - 25 December 1983, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Joan Miró is among the most significant Spanish artists of the 20th century. He worked as a painter, sculptor, illustrator and ceramicist. He remains one of the most influential representatives of Classic Modernism and Surrealism to this day.
Joan Miró was born in what is today Barcelona on 20 April 1893 as the son of a goldsmith. After graduating from business school, Miró attended two art academies in Barcelona, completing his education at the Escola d’Art. Early works by Miró reflect his focus on Fauvism and Cubism.
Miró travelled to Paris in 1919, where he met numerous people who would have a significant influence on his future development, among them Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky or Hans Arp. It was around this time that Miró adopted his characteristic dream-painting style. Shortly afterwards he met André Breton, with whom he founded an artists’ group dedicated to Surrealism, together with André Masson and Max Ernst.
Salvador Dalí exerted the greatest artistic influence on Miró’s work during the 1930s and 1940s. Miró also received numerous major commissions, for instance from the Spanish government or UNESCO.
Miró passed away aged 90 on 25 December 1983 in Palma, where he had lived since 1956. Over the course of his life, he produced more than 2,000 oil paintings, as well as numerous sculptures, ceramics and collages. His contemporaries described him as a modest, disciplined and taciturn gentleman, whose only dream was to own a studio and bring all his ideas to fruition.
As a rule, his images appear simple, but feature mysterious or ironic undertones and are characterised by an extraordinarily innovative use of lines, colours and forms. His works are intended to unleash the creative potential in the unconscious of their viewers. Miró received a large number of awards during his lifetime, among them the Grand Prize for Painting at the Biennale in Venice, or the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in Spain. His most famous works include such paintings as The Harlequin’s Carnival, The Poetess and Triptych Bleu.