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Joan Miró

Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893-1983) · Spain · Artists · Died at 90

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Miró painted like a child set loose in the unconscious - primary colors, floating shapes, creatures that never existed - and called it an assassination of painting. The contempt was the point: he wanted to kill the bourgeois picture and let something wilder take its place.

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1983Died25 December 1983Gold Medal for Tourism MeritAwardHonorary Doctorate of the University of MurciaAward1980Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine ArtsAward1979Honorary Doctorate of Barcelona UniversityAward1978Feltrinelli PrizeAwardGold Medal of the Generalitat of CataloniaAwardGrand Cross of the Order of Isabella the CatholicAward1968Honorary Doctor of Harvard UniversityAward1962Knight of the Legion of HonourAward1959Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the WiseAward1936“..wherever you are, you find the sun, a blade of grass, the spirals of the dragonfly.”In their wordsIn: 'Où allez-vous Miró?' (Where do you go, Miró), Georges Duthuit in Cahiers d'Art 11, nos. 8-10, 1936

“Have you ever heard of anything more stupid than 'abstraction-abstraction'?”In their wordsIn: 'Où allez-vous Miró?', art critic Georges Duthuit in Cahiers d'Art 261, nos. 8-10, 1936

“And then, as you can see, I give greater and greater importance to the materials I use in my work [c. 1936].”In their wordsIn: 'Où allez-vous Miro?', Georges Duthuit in Cahiers d'Art 11, nos. 8-10, 1936

1934“I have thought a lot about the question of titles. I must confess that I find any for works that take off from an arbitrary starting point and end with something real..”In their words12 October 1934In a letter to his art-seller Pierre Matisse, 12 October 1934; as quoted in Calder Miro, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip

1933“We see ourselves confronted with pure abstraction.”In their wordsin a review of his Bernheim show, G. J. Gros, Fall 1933; as quoted in Calder Miro, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson

1893Born20 April 1893

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  1. ..wherever you are, you find the sun, a blade of grass, the spirals of the dragonfly.

    1936, In: 'Où allez-vous Miró?' (Where do you go, Miró), Georges Duthuit in Cahiers d'Art 11, nos. 8-10, 1936, Own words

  2. Have you ever heard of anything more stupid than 'abstraction-abstraction'?

    1936, In: 'Où allez-vous Miró?', art critic Georges Duthuit in Cahiers d'Art 261, nos. 8-10, 1936, Own words

  3. And then, as you can see, I give greater and greater importance to the materials I use in my work [c. 1936].

    1936, In: 'Où allez-vous Miro?', Georges Duthuit in Cahiers d'Art 11, nos. 8-10, 1936, Own words

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Awards

Honorary Doctorate of the University of Murcia1983
Gold Medal for Tourism Merit1983
Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts1980
Honorary Doctorate of Barcelona University1979
Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic1978
Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia1978
Feltrinelli Prize1978
Honorary Doctor of Harvard University1968
Knight of the Legion of Honour1962
Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise1959

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Joan Miró i Ferrà was born in Barcelona on 20 April 1893, a Catalan who would carry that identity into every canvas. His work landed somewhere between Surrealism, Fauvism, and Expressionism, but the categories never quite held - he was after the subconscious, the childlike, the pieces of mind that don't sit still. From the 1930s on he spoke openly against conventional painting methods, seeing them as props for a bourgeois world he wanted no part of, and he framed his own practice as an "assassination of painting," an effort to tear down the visual grammar everyone else obeyed. International acclaim followed anyway. Barcelona opened the Fundació Joan Miró in 1975, and Palma, his adoptive home in Mallorca, established the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in 1981. He died on 25 December 1983, leaving behind work that still resists easy categorization.

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Spain
Category
Artists
Type
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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1893 to 1983 · aged 90

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