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Miró, Joan

Born Apr. 20, 1893, in Montroig, near Tarragona, Catalonia. Spanish painter, sculptor, and graphic artist.

Miro attended the San Jorge School of Fine Arts in Barcelona from 1907 to 1910. He has lived mostly in Paris since 1919. Miro exhibited with the surrealists in their first group exhibition in 1925. In his ornamental works the artist imitates a child’s naive, incoherent drawing, arranging on a flat plane various figures that sometimes vaguely resemble real objects but more frequently are fantastic, mollusk-shaped forms that seem to flow into each other (Catalan Landscape, 1924, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Still Life With an Old Shoe, 1937, private collection, New Canaan, Conn.; A Woman and a Bird in the Moonlight, 1949, Tate Gallery, London). In the 1940’s and 1950’s, Miro took up abstract art. The artist also did book illustrations and designed ceramics and carpets. He subsequently turned to monumental decorative art, for example, the tile mural in the UNESCO building in Paris (1958).

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Soby, J. T. Joan Miro. New York, 1959.

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“Alas, just recently we were all ready for him to come down to do the Miró show at the Museum of Modern Art, and he was very keen to come, and then he rang and said, ‘I’m so sorry, I have got this I-don’t-know-what-it-is, it seems like a kind of pneumonia, and the doctors say I shouldn’t come down.

John Updike Loved New York by Leon Neyfakh / The New York Observer

Taking direct inspiration from Miró, Calder distilled the Catalan master’s biomorphic vocabulary to the point at which Surrealist portent became happy caprice.

Lighter Than Air by Mario Naves / The New York Observer

Joan Miró once declared that his goal was to “assassinate painting.

MoMA Pays the Bills With Big Van Gogh; Calder and Miró Show, Too by Damian Da Costa / The New York Observer

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