Much of Miro’s work lost the cluttered chaotic lack of focus that had defined his work thus far, and he experimented with collage and the process of painting within his work so as to reject the framing that traditional painting provided. The already symbolic and poetic nature of Miro’s work, as well as the dualities and contradictions inherent to it, fit well within the context of dream-like automatism espoused by the group. In 1924, Miro joined the Surrealist group. Two of Miro’s first works classified as Surrealist, Catalan Landscape (The Hunter) and The Tilled Field, employ the symbolic language that was to dominate the art of the next decade. No one else has been able to paint these two very opposing things.” Miro annually returned to Mont-roig and developed a symbolism and nationalism that would stick with him throughout his career. Ernest Hemingway, who later purchased the piece, compared the artistic accomplishment to James Joyce’s Ulysses and described it by saying, “It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there.

One such painting, The Farm, showed a transition to a more individual style of painting and certain nationalistic qualities. The resemblance of Miro's work to that of the intermediate generation of the avant-garde has led scholars to dub this period his Catalan Fauvist period.Ī few years after Miro’s 1918 Barcelona solo exhibition, he settled in Paris where he finished a number of paintings that he had begun on his parents’ summer home and farm in Mont-roig del Camp. His early art, like that of the similarly influenced Fauves and Cubists exhibited in Barcelona, was inspired by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne. He began his working career when he was a teenager as a clerk, although he abandoned the business world completely for art after suffering a nervous breakdown. Miro initially went to business school as well as art school. Inspired by Cubist and surrealist exhibitions from abroad, Miro 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 Artistic de Sant Lluc and he had his first solo show in 1918 at the Dalmau Gallery, where his work was ridiculed and defaced. In 1907 he enrolled at the fine art academy at La Llotja, to the dismay of his father. 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 Miro Adzerias and his mother was Dolors Ferra. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miro expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an 'assassination of painting' in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.īorn into the families of a goldsmith and a watchmaker, Miro grew up in the Barri Gotic neighborhood of Barcelona.

A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundacio Joan Miro, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.Įarning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. Please let us know if you have additional items to appraise, and thank you again for using Mearto.Joan Miro i Ferra (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. *represents a fair-market value for auction purposes retail or asking price may vary. This artwork perfectly reflects the fantastic universe and the imagination that underlie Miró’s iconography and style.

Joan Gaspar continues this tradition: in the last few years he has held multiple exhibitions of Miró's work in his galleries in Barcelona and Madrid. Sala Gaspar regularly exhibited his works, every year from 1970 to 1978.

Joan Miró was a close friend of the Gaspar family. Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist, one of the greatest representatives of surrealism. Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma de Mallorca, 1983). I’m very glad that you chose Mearto for your online appraisal.Īn excellent lithograph by the renowned artist Joan Miró, plate signed.

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