JOAN MIRÓ

MIRÓ WAS BORN APRIL 20, 1893 IN BARCELONA, SPAIN

HE WAS A CATALÁN SCULPTOR, DESIGNER, AND PAINTER.

IN 1911 HE GOT SICK AND STAYED AT HIS PARENTS’ FARM. THE FARM WAS HIS BIGGEST INSPIRATION. HE DECIDED TO BE AN ARTIST.

The Farm 1920-1921 Vegetable Garden with Donkey 1918

The Spanish word for farm is “granja.”

IN 1912 HE BEGAN ATTENDING THE FRANCISCO GALY ART SCHOOL IN BARCELONA. THIS PAINTING IS “EL GRANJERO” (THE FARMER) FROM 1914.

EN 1915 HE STOPPED HIS STUDIES AT FRANCISCO GALY ART SCHOOL AND SPENT 6 MONTHS IN THE ARMY.

ON FEBRURARY 6, 1917, HE HAD HIS FIRST ART EXHIBITION WITH 64 WORKS OF ART. NO ONE BOUGHT ANYTHING.

Self-Portrait 1917 Portrait of E.C. Ricart 1917

IN1918 MIRÓ CHANGED HIS ART STYLE TO “DETAILED ELABORATION.”

Ciruana the Path 1917 Waggon Tracks 1918

HIS FIRST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION WAS IN 1921. IT WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL, BUT AUTHOR ERNEST HEMINGWAY BOUGHT “THE FARM.”

IN1923-1924 HE BEGAN HIS SURREALIST STYLE. AFTER GOING TO BED HUNGRY ONE NIGHT, HE HAD STRANGE DREAMS. THESE “HUNGER HALLUCINATIONS” WERE PART OF HIS INSPIRATION AT THIS TIME.

The Tilled Field 1923-24 Catalan Landscape (Hunter) 1923

IN 1925 ANDRE BRETON (ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF SURREALISM) SAID “MIRÓ—THE MOST SURREALIST OF US ALL.”

Ladders Across a Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire 1953

1926-1927 MIRÓ CREATED HIS OWN STYLE. IT WAS MORE ABSTRACT AND ARTIFICIAL.Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird 1926 Clouds and Birds 1927

A 1928 TRIP TO HOLLAND WAS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION.Dutch Interior 1928 Potato 1928

HE WAS A SCULPTOR TOO…La Defense

MORE SCULPTURES…Gothic Personage-Bird Flash 1974

Located in Barcelona, Spain

AND MORE…

AND MORE!Moonbird Oiseaux 1968

JOAN MIRÓ DIED IN PALMA, MALLORCA DECEMBER 25, 1983. TODAY HIS PAINTINGS SELL FOR $250,000 TO $17 MILLON.