Joan Miró


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Name
Joan Miró
Life Dates
1893-1983
Country
Spain
Movement
Surrealism

Joan Miró Biography

Joan Miró Ferra was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona, into the family of a goldsmith and watchmaker. Miró started drawing classes at the age of seven, but later yielding to his parents’ insistence to receive a decent profession took business classes and became a book-keeper. Simultaneously, in 1907-10 Joan Miró studied art in the academy La Escuela de la Lonja in Barcelona in the class of the landscapist Modesto Urgell Inglada and professor of decorative and applied arts José Pasco Merisa. In 1912-15, he studied in the private academy of Francese D’A. Galí Fabra. In 1918, together with some like-minded friends Miró founded “Agrupació Courbet”, a group of young artists who opposed themselves to conservative traditions in Catalan art. In his works of 1913-17 the most important are the influences of Cézanne and the Fauvists: objects are close to each other and shine with bright and broken colors; striped patterns make up a kind of decorative ornament...


Joan Miró 72 Most Important Paintings and Artworks

  • Joan Miró. The Farmer.
    The Farmer.

    c. 1912-14. Oil on canvas. 65 x 50 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. Still Life with Rose.
    Still Life With Rose.

    1916. Oil on cardboard. 77 x 74 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. Prades, the Village.
    Prades, The Village.

    1917. Oil on canvas. 65 x 72.5 cm. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.

  • Joan Miró. Ciurana, the Path.
    Ciurana, The Path.

    1917. Oil on canvas. 60 x 73 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. North-South.
    North-South.

    1917. Oil on canvas. 62 x 70 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. Portrait of E.C. Ricart.
    Portrait Of E.C. Ricart.

    1917. Oil and color print on canvas. 81 x 65 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. Portrait of V. Nubiola.
    Portrait Of V. Nubiola.

    1917. Oil on canvas. 104 x 113 cm. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.

  • Joan Miró. Self-Portrait.
    Self-Portrait.

    1917. Oil on canvas. 61 x 50. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. Portrait of Hiberto Casany.
 (The Chauffeur).
    Portrait Of Hiberto Casany. (The Chauffeur).

    1918. Oil on canvas. 70 x 62 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. The Vegetable Garden with
 Donkey.
    The Vegetable Garden With Donkey.

    1918. Oil on canvas. 64 x 70 cm. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Joan Miró. The Waggon Tracks.
    The Waggon Tracks.

    1918. Oil on canvas. 75 x 75 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. Self-Portrait.
    Self-Portrait.

    1919. Oil on canvas. 75 x 60 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris, France.

  • Joan Miró. Nude with Mirror.
    Nude With Mirror.

    1919. Oil on canvas. 112 x 102 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. The Table (Still Life with
 Rabbit).
    The Table (Still Life With Rabbit).

    1920. Oil on canvas. 130 x 110 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. Standing Nude.
    Standing Nude.

    1921. Oil on canvas. 130 x 96 cm. Perls Galleries. New York, NY, USA.

  • Joan Miró. The Farm.
    The Farm.

    1921-22. Oil on canvas. 132 x 147 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.

  • Joan Miró. The Carbide Lamp.
    The Carbide Lamp.

    1922-23. Oil on canvas. 38 x 45.7 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.

  • Joan Miró. The Farmer's Wife.
    The Farmer's Wife.

    1922-23. Oil on canvas. 81 x 65 cm. Private collection.

  • Joan Miró. The Ear of Corn.
    The Ear Of Corn.

    1922-23. Oil on canvas. 37.8 x 46 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.

  • Joan Miró. The Tilled Field.
    The Tilled Field.

    1923-24. Oil on canvas. 66 x 92.7 cm. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.

Joan Miró Bibliography

Miró. By R. Penrose. London. 1970.

Joan Miró. Selected Writings and Interviews. Ed. By M. Rowell. London 1987

Joan Miró. By Rosa Maria Malet. Rizzoli. 1993.

Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.

Joan Miro: 1893-1983 (Basic Art) by Janis Mink. TASCHEN America Llc, 2000.

Miro (Big Art Series) by Walter Erben. TASCHEN America Llc, 1998.

The Kidnapping of the Painter Miro by Paul Hartal. Elore Publications, 1997.

Encounters With Great Painters: The Artists, Bacon, Balthus, Braque, Chagall, Dali, Delvaux, Leger, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, Van Dongen by Claude Azoulay (Editor), Molly Stevens (Translator), Anthony Roberts (Translator), Roger Therond (Compiler), Roger Theron (Editor). Harry N Abrams, 2001.

Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews by Joan Miro, Powell Margit (Editor), Margit Rowell, Paul Auster (Translator). DaCapo Press, 1992.

Joan Miro Foundation Guidebook by Joan Miro (Editor), Rosa Maria Malet (Editor), Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain. Skira, 1999.

Depression and the Spiritual in Modern Art: Homage to Miró by Joseph J. Schildkraut (Editor), Aurora Otero (Editor). John Wiley & Son Ltd, 1996.

Matisse, Picasso, Miro--as I Knew Them by Rosamond Bernier. Knopf, 1991.

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