Joan Miró

Joan Miró (April 20th 1893 with Barcelona - December 25th 1983 with Palma de Majorque) is a painter, sculptor and Spanish ceramist , considered as a major actor of the Modern art.

Attracted by the joined together artistic community with Montparnasse, it meets the movement Dada in 1920, and under the surrealist influence of the poets and writers S develops as of 1924 its single style, a geography of coloured signs and poetic forms in weightlessness placed under the double sign of a freshness of wrongfully naive invention and exuberant Catalan spirit and baroque.

In 1926, it collaborates with max Ernst on decorations for Serge de Diaghilev. The technique of “scraping” is then tested.

Miró Marie with Pilar Juncosa with Palma de Majorque the October 12th 1929 and binds friendship with Pablo Picasso and Kandinsky.

One of the most radical theorists (and founders) of surrealism, André Breton, described Miró like “most surrealist among us”. Miró expresses its provocative contempt for painting (at least that one considers conventionally) and its desire to kill her and to assassinate it in favor of new means of expression in many writings and interviews of the years 1930.

Shuzo Takiguchi publishes the first monograph of Miró in 1940.

Joan Miró gains in 1954 the price of printed with the Biennale de Venise.

In 1957, it becomes Satrape Collège of' Pataphysique.

The largest museums of the world devote retrospectives then to him. It carries out monumental illustrations, lithographies and sculptures for the Fondation Maeght.

It is named doctor honoris causa university of Harvard in 1968, and of that of Barcelona in 1979, city where it creates in 1972 a Fondation Miró.

In its last years, it gets busy to use various means of expression, producing for example hundreds of ceramics, including the wall of the moon and the wall of the sun on the building of UNESCO to Paris. It presents in writing its most radical ideas and least known, exploring the possibilities of the gas Sculpture and the Peinture in four dimensions.

Works

Heriberto Casany (1990, Kimbell Art Museum of Fort Worth)
In 1974, its reinterpretation of the postal Bird, logotype of the French post offices, becomes the first artistic work especially created to be reproduced on a stamp of the artistic Série, in France.
the Cock sold with the biddings 9,8MEuros in June 2007 price record for this painter.

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