When was Joan Miro born and when did he die?
Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mi-ROH, US also mee-ROH, Catalan: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo j fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.
Where is the Museum of Joan Miro located?
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 de Mallorca in 1981.
What kind of painting is the Hunter by Joan Miro?
Joan Miró’s painting The Hunter (Catalan Landscape) brings together the real and the imaginary, abstraction and figuration, and image and text in a way that would characterize much of his work to come.
What did Joan Miro do in Dutch Interior?
In Dutch Interior (I), part of a series based on 17th-century Dutch genre paintings, Miró reimagined illusionistic space, compressing and flattening the scene of the original painting into planes of non-naturalistic, unmodulated color.
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 de Mallorca in 1981.
When was Joan Miro married to Pilar Juncosa?
Miró married Pilar Juncosa in Palma ( Majorca) on 12 October 1929. Their daughter, María Dolores Miró, was born on 17 July 1930. In 1931, Pierre Matisse opened an art gallery in New York City. The Pierre Matisse Gallery (which existed until Matisse’s death in 1989) became an influential part of the Modern art movement in America.
Where did Joan Miro go to school in Barcelona?
He enrols at the Escola de Comerç in Barcelona and, until 1910, also attends classes at the Escola Superior d’Arts Industrials i Belles Arts (La Llotja), where he is taught by Modest Urgell and Josep Pascó. He starts work as an accounts clerk at Dalmau i Oliveres chemist’s shop in Barcelona.
When did Joan Miro move to Palma de Mallorca?
In January he starts work on a series of 23 gouaches, which he continues in Palma de Mallorca and completes in Mont-roig in September 1941. It comes to be known as the Constellations series. The Germans bomb Normandy at the end of May and Miró decides to return to Spain with his family, where they settle in Palma de Mallorca.
