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Miro, Joan Biography
(1893-1983)
Catalan artist, one of the foremost exponents of abstract art and Surrealist
fantasy.Miro was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona and studied at the Barcelona
School of Fine Arts and the Academia Galí. Miro’s work before 1920 shows
wide-ranging influences, including the bright colors of the fauves, the broken
forms of cubism. Miro moved to Paris in 1920, where, under the influence of
surrealist poets and writers, he evolved his mature style. Miro drew on memory,
fantasy, and the irrational to create works of art that are visual analogues of
surrealist poetry. These dreamlike visions, such as Harlequin's Carnival or
Dutch Interior, often have a whimsical or humorous quality, containing images of
playfully distorted animal forms, twisted organic shapes, and odd geometric
constructions. The forms of his oil paintings are organized against flat neutral
backgrounds and are painted in a limited range of bright colors, especially
blue, red, yellow, green, and black. Amorphous amoebic shapes alternate with
sharply drawn lines, spots, and curlicues, all positioned on the canvas with
seeming nonchalance. Miro later produced highly generalized, ethereal works in
which his organic forms and figures are reduced to abstract spots, lines and
bursts of colors.
Joan Miro’s famous oil paintings include:
- Le Vol D'Oiseau sur la Plaine I
- Prades, the Village
- The Farm
- The Tilled Field
- Harlequin's Carnival
- Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird
- Dutch Interior I
- Still Life with Old Shoe
- A Dew Drop Falling
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