Joan Miró

Birth: April 20, 1893 - Barcelona, Spain

Death: December 25, 1983 - Palma, Majorca

Joan Miró, was a Catalan painter who combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. His mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life. He worked extensively in lithography and produced numerous murals, tapestries, and sculptures for public spaces.

In the years following World War II Joan Miró became internationally famous. His sculptures, drawings, and paintings were exhibited in many countries. He was commissioned to paint a number of murals, notably for the Terrace Hilton Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio (1947) and for Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1950). His ceramic experiments culminated in the two great ceramic walls in the UNESCO building in Paris, France (1958) for which he received the Great International Prize of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Among his later works were several monumental sculptures, such as those he executed for the city of Chicago (1981) and for the city of Houston (1982).

* Erben, Walter. "Joan Miró". Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Dec. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joan-Miro. Accessed 7 January 2023.