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(1893-1983)
Miro was born as the son of a goldsmith and jewelry maker in Barcelona in Northern Spain.
He studied art at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and at the Academia Gali. Miro worked
as an accountant for nearly two years until he had a nervous breakdown. His parents finally
accepted their son's choice of a career as an artist without giving him too much support.
In 1920 Miro made the first of a series of trips to Paris. He met Pablo Picasso and many of
the other great painters and artists living in Paris - the center of arts in the late nineteenth and
first half of the twentieth century. In 1924 his painting style took a turn to Surrealism. By
1930 the artist had developed his own style. Miro’s art is characterized by brilliant colors
combined with simplified forms that are reminiscent of drawings made by children at the age
of five. Joan Miro art integrates elements of Catalan folk art. He liked to compare his visual
arts to poetry.
Miro was a dedicated print maker who worked in lithographs and etchings with
carborundum . Miro is among those modern artists like Picasso or Chagall whose works
were published in editions targeted at a collector audience, making Miro art available for art
lovers around the world. |
