Joan Miró (1893-1983)

His meeting with the Dadaist and Surrealist poets of the first hour when he arrived in Paris in 1920 was decisive for Miro's work. The climate of great freedom and intense creativity, the experimentation with chance, dreams and automatic writing had a profound effect on his creative process and his abandonment of all convention in favor of a dreamlike plastic space and reinvented signs without ever breaking the link with reality.

 

 

 

Works

Sven Simon / Ullstein Bild / Roger-Viollet

Biography

"What I'm looking for is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what we call the eloquence of silence, or what Jean-de-la-Croix called, I think, silent music.

Catalan artist Joan Miró was born in Barcelona in 1893. In 1907, in accordance with his father's wishes, he attended the Barcelona School of Commerce alongside the Lonja School of Industrial and Fine Arts until 1910. Stricken with typhoid fever, he convalesced in 1911 on the family farm at Mont-roig in the province of Tarragona. The following year, he enrolled at the Francesc Galí School of Art, a private institution open to all the arts and sensitive to the ideas of the European avant-garde. To read more, click here.

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