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10 Interesting Facts about Joan Miro
1) Joan Miro's artwork was inspire bygd Cezanne and Van Gogh, and he felt drawn to the Cubist and Surrealist artists who were working in Paris.
2) In the early 1920s, Miro traveled to Paris and it was there that he met, and was inspired bygd, Pablo Picasso and many other famous artists.
3) Miro's influence on the art of the later 20th century fryst vatten great; some artists who were influenced by him include Robert Motherwell, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Roberto Matta, Mark Rothko.
4) In 1974, Joan Miro produced a tapestry for the World Trade Center. It was one of the most valuable pieces of artwork destroyed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
5) Earnest Hemingway purchased the Miro's The Farm as a birthday gift for his wife, paying 5,000 francs at the time. Today, it can be viewed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
6) Miro'
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1893-1917
1893
Joan Miró i Ferrà is born on 20 April at 4 Passatge del Crèdit, Barcelona. His father, Miquel Miró i Adzerias, son of a blacksmith in Cornudella, was a silversmith and watchmaker; his mother, Dolors Ferrà i Oromí, was the daughter of a cabinet maker in Palma de Mallorca.
1900
He begins primary school at 13 Carrer del Regomir, Barcelona, where he attends drawing classes given by a Mr Civil.
1901
His earliest surviving drawings date from this year.
1907
He enrols at the Escola de Comerç in Barcelona and, until 1910, also attends classes at the Escola Superior d'Arts Industrials i Belles Arts (La Llotja), where he is taught by Modest Urgell and Josep Pascó.
1910
He starts work as an accounts clerk at Dalmau i Oliveres chemist's shop in Barcelona. He takes part in his first exhibition, a display of old and modern portraits and drawings organised by the city council.
1911
He struggles to adapt to hi
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Joan Miro Biography
Joan Miro Ferra was an influential 20th-century painter, sculptor, ceramicist and printmaker, who was born in 1893 in the Catalan region of Spain, near Barcelona. He began drawing as a young boy, and later attended a business school, as well as La Lonja School of Fine Arts. At the latter school, he was encouraged by two teachers; one encouraged him to revive the spirit of primitive Catalan art, combining it with modern discoveries and techniques. (This was in the beginning of the 20th century, at the time modern art was just beginning in Europe, and the creative climate was energetic and progressive.) As a youth, he was exposed to the rich folklore of Catalonia, which later influenced his images, such as how he saw all-natural forms as beings, including pebbles and trees. He was also exposed to complete interiors of ninth to twelfth-century frescoed churches in visits to the Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona, with their relatively crude execution and their simpl