Artist a Day: Joan Miró

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Artist a day! JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983) Like most intellectuals, Miro cannot be assigned to a particular class or category of artists.

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The Birth of Day

His curiosity in the unconscious world, ideas, and emotions concealed in the depths of the mentality connect him with Surrealism.

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The Birth of Day

His most significant works are those from the series of "Constellations ", created in the early 40s.

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Constellation: The Morning Star

Gouache on paper, 38 x 46 cm, 1940

Joan Miró was a Catalan artist who merged abstract art with Surrealist imagination.

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Constellation: Awakening at Dawn

Gouache on paper, 46 x 38 cm, 1941

His style developed from the anxiety between his frivolous poetic intuition and his vision of the rigor of modern life.

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The Tilled Field

Oil on canvas, 66 x 92.7 cm, 1923

In 1907 when he was fourteen, Miró began learning about the landscape and ornamental art at the School of Industrial and Fine Arts in Barcelona.

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Maternity

Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm, 1924

At the same time, he attended the School of Commerce with his parents' advice, who desired him to follow a more realistic career.

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The Farm

Oil on canvas, 132 x 147 cm, 1922

He anticipated his artistic plan as a challenge to conventional painting and an attack on the materialistic society.

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The Ear of Grain

Oil on canvas, 37.8 x 46 cm, 1923

Miró developed a distinctly metaphorical language of simplified, biomorphic, or naturalistic shapes.

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Dancer

Oil on canvas, 115.5 x 88.5 cm, 1925

He employed two techniques: some elements were painted straight on the canvas, but others were first sketched and then colored.

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The Carbide Lamp

Oil on canvas, 38 x 45.7 cm, 1923

A museum reserved for his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was founded in his native city of Barcelona in 1975.

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The Red Sun

Oil and Gouache on canvas, 1948

The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró was founded in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.

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The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers

"When I stand in front of a canvas, I never know what I’m going to do – and nobody is more surprised than I at what comes out."

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"In a painting, you should be able to discover new things each time you look at it. For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem."

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"Yes, it took me just a moment to draw this line with the brush. But it took me months, perhaps even years, of reflection to form the idea."

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