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Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish
painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
born in Barcelona. Joan Miró was
a Catalan painter who combined
abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. His
mature style evolved from the tension
between his fanciful poetic impulse and
his vision of the harshness of modern life.
He worked extensively in lithography and
produced numerous murals, tapestries, and
sculptures for public spaces.
A museum dedicated to his work, the
Fundació Joan Miró, was established in
his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and
another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró,
was established in his adoptive city of
Palma de Mallorca in 1981. Wikipedia The
Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute
of Chicago Periods: Surrealism, Fauvism,
Cubism, Abstract expressionism.
“I found Miro’s work different from the
other painters at the time, where some
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of his works took on a more child-like
surrealistic fantasy–original, very modern
and colorful–extraordinary.”
“Since 1972 (yearly) I have been living
and painting in Sitges (20 minutes from
Barcelona). Miro, Dali, Picasso are the three
artists that predominate the museums in
Barcelona, each with their own individual
museums. Miro – The Fundació Joan Miró
is a museum of modern art honoring Joan
Miró located on the hill called Montjuïc in
Barcelona, Catalonia.
Picasso – The Museu Picasso, located in
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, houses one of
the most extensive collections of artworks
by the 20th-century Spanish artist Pablo
Picasso.