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Joan Miro i Ferra was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist. 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 in 1981.
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About the Joan Miro
Joan Miro i Ferrawas a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist. 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 in 1981.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miro 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.
7 Quotes by Joan Miro
- 1.
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
Joan MiroSpanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893-1983)
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I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Joan MiroSpanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893-1983)
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What I am looking for… is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term ‘mute music’.
Joan MiroSpanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893-1983)
- 4.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan MiroSpanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893-1983)
- 5.
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
Joan MiroSpanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893-1983)
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Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
Joan MiroSpanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893-1983)
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I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Joan MiroSpanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893-1983)