BIOGRAPHY
Joan Miró (b Barcelona, 20 April 1893; d
Palma de Mallorca, 25 Dec 1983). Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and
decorative artist. He was never closely aligned with any movement and was too
retiring in his manner to be the object of a personality cult, like his
compatriot Picasso, but the formal and technical innovations that he sustained
over a very long career guaranteed his influence on 20th-century art. A
pre-eminent figure in the history of abstraction and an important example to
several generations of artists around the world, he remained profoundly attached
to the specific circumstances and environment that shaped his art in his early
years. An acute balance of sophistication and innocence and a deeply rooted
conviction about the relationship between art and nature lie behind all his work
and account in good measure for the wide appeal that his art has continued to
exercise across many of the usual barriers of style.
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