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Joan Miró (April 20,1893 December 25,1983)

Joan Miró i Ferrà was born in Barcelona, Spain on April 20, 1893.

Joan miro ferra biography definition

He began private drawing classes at the tender age of severs old. When he was seventeen, he enrolled at the fine art academy La Llotja despite his father’s disapproval. Miro originally studied business, but abandoned that world after suffering a nervous breakdown.

His first solo show was in 1918 at the Galeries Dalmau where his work was defaced and ridiculed.

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Miro still cultivated his interest in art and inspired by Fauvist and Cubist exhibitions in Barcelona and abroad. The influence of the avant-garde is reflected in his early works. This period in Miro’s art is referred to as his Catalan Fauvist period.

In 1920 he moved and settled in Paris and completed many paintings that he had bungun at his parent’s home in Mont roig del Camp which he would continue to visit annually.

These pilgrimages encouraged a symbolism and nationalism within Miro’s work that would re