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Joan Miró i Ferrà

Joan Miró i Ferrà (Barcelona, April 20, 1893 – Palma de Mallorca, December 25, 1983) painter, sculptor, engraver and Spanish ceramist , considered one of the greatest representatives of Surrealism. In his work reflected his interest in the subconscious, as “childish” and in his country. At first showed strong influences Fauves, Cubists and Expressionists, moving to a flat paint with a touch naive, as is his famous painting The Farm 1920. After his stay in Paris, his work becomes more dreamlike, coinciding with the point of surrealism and joining this movimiento. In numerous interviews and writings dating from the 1930s, Miró expressed his desire to abandon conventional paint methods in his own words “kill, kill or rape” in order to encourage a form of expression that was contemporary, and not wanting to bow to their demands and aesthetics even with their commitments to surrealistas.

One of his major projects was the creation in 1975, Joan Miró Foundation, located in Barcelona cultural center to disseminate the new trend in contemporary art, becoming a large collection of works donated by the author elsewhere with significant funds of his works are the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Centre Pompidou in Paris (Musée National d’Art Moderne) and the MOMA in New York.