Joan Miró i Ferrà was a famous Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist. He is very important in Catalonia because of his brilliant works. His pictures have been sold around the world. His works are based on different topics, like his country or abstract ideeas which were the most original in the twentieth century.
Miró was born in April 20th, 1893 in Barcelona and he studied at the Belles Arts school and at the Galí Academy. His work before 1920 was influenced by the brilliant colors of the Fauves, the fragmented forms of cubism and the two-dimensional Catalan romantic freschoes. In 1920 he moved to Paris, and he met Pablo Picasso, who influenced him in the art of surrealism.
He also did watercolors, pastels, collages, painting on copper, sculpture, theater designs and cartoons for tapestries.
The most important works he did are the large ceramic murals called ‘La paret de la lluna i la paret del sol’ (1957-1959) for the building of UNESCO in Paris, and the wall of the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of Madrid. Nowadays, its production can be seen in the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, opened in 1975, and in most museums of contemporary art from all around the world.
Here, in Catalonia he did very important scultures like the dona i ocell, an abstract sculture decorated with mosaic. We can find it in the Park Joan Miró in Barcelona.Joan Miró died in Palma de Mallorca in 25th desember 1983.
By Emma Sellés and
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