Joan Miro
Joan Miro's name is pronounced hoän mro
1893 - 1983
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Spanish Painter, Designer and Sculptor
Stylistically influenced by the following painters and art movements - Surrealism, Dadaism Cubism, Andre Breton and Paul Cézanne
Education - He spent his childhood in his fathers goldsmith studio. Attended the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the Academia Galí
Medium - oil on canvas, ceramics and mixed media
Mental health - Joan
Miro's family pressured him into working as an accountant for nearly two
years until he had a nervous breakdown.
Cause of Death - Old age, he was 90
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Joan Miro Quotations
Painting or poetry is
made as one makes love - a
total embrace, prudence
thrown to the winds, nothing
held back. --Joan Miro
The simplest things give me
ideas. --Joan Miro
What I will no longer accept
is the mediocre life of a
modest little gentleman. --
Joan Miro
He was just 24 years old when he had his first show at the Dalmau Gallery in 1918
Joan Miro Career and Biography Highlights
Miro was born on April 20, 1893, in Montroig, Spain.
Miro married Pilar Juncosa
in 1928, Oct.12
Miro
exhibited with a group of
surrealists in the Pierre
Gallery, also in Paris In
1928
In 1976 the Joan Miró Foundation Centre of Contemporary Art Study was officially opened in the city of Barcelona and in 1979
Miro
received Gold Medal of Fine
Arts from the King of Spain
in 1980
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