When did Joan Miró live?

Joan Miró lived from 1893 to 1983.

What movement was Joan Miró part of?

Joan Miró was part of the Surrealism movement.

How many Joan Miró paintings are in the archive?

There are 39 paintings by Joan Miró in the Artifact World Gallery archive.

Where can I see paintings by Joan Miró?

Paintings by Joan Miró are held by Museum of Modern Art.

Joan Miró · 39 Paintings, Biography & Famous Works

Spanish, 1893–1983

Joan Miró was a Spanish Surrealism artist. 39 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Joan Miró was born in Barcelona.

Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mirr-OH, US also mee-ROH, Catalan:; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. 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, Mallorca 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, Miró 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.