Joan Miro. Joan Mir� i Ferr� was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.
A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundaci� Joan Mir�, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundaci� Pilar i Joan Mir�, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride.
In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Mir� expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an assassination of painting in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. Born into a family of a goldsmith and a watchmaker, Mir� grew up in the Barri G�tic neighborhood of Barcelona.
The Mir� surname indicates Jewish roots. His father was Miquel Mir� Adzerias and his mother was Dolors Ferr�.
He began drawing classes at the age of seven at a private school at Carrer del Regomir 13, a medieval mansion. To the dismay of his father, he enrolled at the fine art academy at La Llotja in 1907. He studied at the Cercle Art�stic de Sant Lluc and he had his first solo show in 1918 at the Galeries Dalmau, where his work was ridiculed and defaced. Inspired by Fauve and Cubist exhibitions in Barcelona and abroad, Mir� w
A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundaci� Joan Mir�, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundaci� Pilar i Joan Mir�, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride.
In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Mir� expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an assassination of painting in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. Born into a family of a goldsmith and a watchmaker, Mir� grew up in the Barri G�tic neighborhood of Barcelona.
The Mir� surname indicates Jewish roots. His father was Miquel Mir� Adzerias and his mother was Dolors Ferr�.
He began drawing classes at the age of seven at a private school at Carrer del Regomir 13, a medieval mansion. To the dismay of his father, he enrolled at the fine art academy at La Llotja in 1907. He studied at the Cercle Art�stic de Sant Lluc and he had his first solo show in 1918 at the Galeries Dalmau, where his work was ridiculed and defaced. Inspired by Fauve and Cubist exhibitions in Barcelona and abroad, Mir� w
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