Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mirr-OH, US also mee-ROH, Catalan: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo j fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Spain.

His work has been interpreted as Surrealist with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His sometimes difficult-to-classify works are also said to contain manifestations of Catalan pride.

In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods which he saw as supporting bourgeois society, and which he declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

In 1975 a museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona with another one being opened in 1981 in his adoptive city of Palma, Mallorca.

Notable works: Miró Wall, Portrait of Vincent Nubiola, Nord-Sud, Portrait of a Girl, House with Palm Tree, The Farm, Portrait of a Spanish Dancer, Interior Awards: Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise, Knight of the Legion of Honour, honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia, Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia, honorary doctorate of Barcelona University, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Feltrinelli Prize, Gold Medal for Tourism Merit

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