His early art, like that of the similarly influenced Fauves and Cubists, was inspired by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. He began his working career as a clerk when he was a teenager, although he abandoned the business world completely for art after suffering a nervous breakdown. Miró initially went to business school as well as art school. Exhibited Exposició d'Art francès d'Avantguarda, Galeries Dalmau, 26 October – 15 November 1920, reproduced in the catalogue Joan Miró, 1920, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, oil on canvas, 82.6 × 74.9 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Inspired by Fauve and Cubist exhibitions in Barcelona and abroad, Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, but continued to spend his summers in Catalonia.
He studied at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc and he had his first solo show in 1918 at the Galeries Dalmau, where his work was ridiculed and defaced. To the dismay of his father, he enrolled at the fine art academy at La Llotja in 1907. He began drawing classes at the age of seven at a private school at Carrer del Regomir 13, a medieval mansion. His father was Miquel Miró Adzerias and his mother was Dolors Ferrà. The Miró surname indicates possible Jewish roots (in terms of marrano or converso Iberian Jews who converted to Christianity). īorn into a family of a goldsmith and a watchmaker, Miró grew up in the Barri Gòtic neighborhood of Barcelona. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. 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 in 1981.Įarning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. Painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. Joan Miró i Ferrà ( / m ɪ ˈ r oʊ/ mi- ROH, US also / m iː ˈ r oʊ/ mee- ROH, Catalan: 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Lotja and Escuela de Arte de Francesco Galí, Circulo Artístico de Sant Lluc, 1907–1913ġ954 Venice Biennale Grand Prize for Graphic Work,
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