With worldwide recognition, Miro's art has been categorized under the style of Surrealism and called a toy box for the unconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, with an expression of Catalan pride. In multiple interviews going back the 1930s forward, Miro conveyed disdain for formal painting techniques as a means of endorsing bourgeoisie society, and famously stated a preference for the "assassination of painting", overturning the established visual components of the conventional manners in paintings of the era.
Miro had been born into a family of a goldsmith and watchmaker, and even as a boy he was attracted to the artistic community which gathered in Montparnasse then in 1920 found it's way to the city of Paris. In Paris, with the influence of the poets and authors, Miro's singular style developed: organic figures and planar picture planes cast with a crisp line.
Miro had been born into a family of a goldsmith and watchmaker, and even as a boy he was attracted to the artistic community which gathered in Montparnasse then in 1920 found it's way to the city of Paris. In Paris, with the influence of the poets and authors, Miro's singular style developed: organic figures and planar picture planes cast with a crisp line.
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Biography
Commonly considered as a Surrealist artist due to his pursuit in automatism and the manipulation of sexual symbols such as his depictions of ovoids with rippled lines giving forth between them, Miro's manner had been influenced with a mix of surrealism as well as Dada. Even so he turned away membership to every art movement during the European war years. Artist Andre Breton, often thought of as the founder of Surrealism, claimed Miro to be "the most Surrealist of us all."During the year 1926 Miro joined forces with fellow artist Max Ernst on pieces for Sergei Diaghilev, a Russian art critic as well as art patron, ballet impresario and the founder of the Ballets Russes. With Miro's assistance, Ernst initiated the method of grattage, a method using a trowel to place pigment on his canvases. Miro then wed Pilar Juncosa in Palma de Mallorca on October 12, 1929; a daughter Dolores was born July 17, 1931. During 1959, André Breton asked that Miro be Spain's representitive in The Homage to Surrealism exhibit which included other famous surrealistic artist of the day such with work by Enrique Tabara, Salvador Dali and also Eugenio Granell.
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Miro also produced a magnificent series of sculptures as well as ceramics for the landscape of the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-en-Foret in France which he finished in 1964.Miro was one of the foremost artists to formulate reflex drawing as a method to change former conventional methods of painting, and as a result, along with French surrealist painter Andre Masson, exemplified the beginnings of Surrealism as it's own art movement. Even given this claim by critics Miro preferred never to be an established part of the Surrealists or tied to any singular art movement. He wished to be be free of being categorized in order to try out additional arts styles without compromising his place in any one group. He followed his personal concerns in the art domain, rambling from automatic drawing as well as surrealism, to expressionism as well as color field work.
Miró's frequently cited concern with the backwash of painting is inferred from his disapproval of bourgeoisie artwork of every form, which he considered to be employed as a means to advertise propaganda and establish social distance between the affluent. Specifically, Miro answered to Cubism in such a fashion, his claims had become an conventional art form in France. Miro is cited as announcing "I will break their guitar," pertaining to Pablo Picasso's work, with a purpose to snipe the fame and annexation of Picasso's work with politics.
In his last years Miro turned the direction of his art to assorted forms of media creating hundreds of ceramics, including the Wall of the Moon and Wall of the Sun in the UNESCO building in Paris. He likewise crafted interim window paintings on glass for an exhibition. During the final years his life Miro penned his most revolutionary yet most over looked thoughts, researching the theories of gas sculpture as well as four dimensional painting.
Catalan Peasant with a Guitar - Joan Miro
Women Encircled by the Flight of a Bird - Joan Miro
The Poetess - Joan Miro
Portrait of Juanita Obrador - Joan Miro
The Birth of the World - Joan Miro
Personages in the Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails - Joan Miro
Hand Catching a Bird - Joan Miro
Ciphers Constellations - Joan Miro
Catalan Landscape The Hunter - Joan Miro
Carnival of Harlequin - Joan Miro
Joan Miro Bird Woman II - Joan Miro
Portrait of a Spanish Dancer - Joan Miro
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Joan Miró i Ferrà born April 20, 1893 - died December 25, 1983 was a Catalan of Spanish heritage painter, sculptor and ceramicist. His city of bi... (more)
