Joan Miro

Joan Miro, was born in 1893 in Barcelona. He was attracted to drawing already in his childhood. At the age of seven he attended optional drawing classes, and at the age of 12 he painted nature in the countryside of Tarragona and Palma de Mallorca. While studying at a commercial school, he later attended the Academy of Lonja, where ten years before him, Picasso also perfected his skills.

Joan Miro belongs to the giants of modern painting in the 20th century. Like Picasso, Klee, Kandinsky, Braque and Gris, he worked in the period of cubism, surrealism and abstract painting.

His works have been interpreted as Surrealism with a personal style, as Fauvism and Expressionism. He was known for his interest in the unconscious and the unconscious, which was reflected in his re-creation of the childish. His hard-to-classify works manifested Catalan pride. In numerous interviews from the 1930s, Miró expressed his disdain for conventional painting techniques as a way of supporting bourgeois society and declared an “assassination of painting” in the context of upsetting the visual elements in established painting.

Joan Miró died on December 25, 1983 in Palma de Mallorca.