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Joan Miro
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Joan was born as the son of a goldsmith and jewelry maker in Barcelona in Northern Spain. He studied arts at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and at the Academia Gali. His parents would rather have seen him taking a job as a serious businessman. He even took business classes in 1907 parallel to his art classes. Joan worked as an accountant for nearly two years until he had some kind of a nervous breakdown. His parents finally accepted their son's choice of a career as an artist without giving him too much support.
Miro made the first of a series of trips to Paris. He settled permanently in the French capital. 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. Miro joined the circle of the Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. His painting style took a turn to Surrealism. His comrades were Andre Masson and Max Ernst. But he never integrated himself completely into this group dominated by Andre Breton. He remained an outsider.
Miro art is hard to describe. It is characterized by brilliant colors combined with simplified forms that remind 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.
In the 1930s the artist's fame and recognition became international. From 1940 to 1948 the he was back in Spain. During this period he experimented in different media - sculpture, ceramics and murals.
Joan Miro is known for his playful art. His emblematic images make a naive, childlike impression at first sight. In contrast to the image of his art, he was a solid, hardworking man who preferred to come to gallery exhibitions in dark business suits. He died at the age of 90 in 1983.
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