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Miró, Joan (Spanish, 1893-1983)'s works |
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Joan Mir¨® Ferra was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona, into the family of a goldsmith and watchmaker. Mir¨® started drawing classes at the age of seven, but later yielding to his parents¡¯ insistence to receive a decent profession took business classes and became a book-keeper. Simultaneously, in 1907-10 Joan Mir¨® studied art in the academy La Escuela de la Lonja in Barcelona in the class of the landscapist Modesto Urgell Inglada and professor of decorative and applied arts Jos¨¦ Pasco Merisa. In 1912-15, he studied in the private academy of Francese D¡¯A. Gal¨ª Fabra. In 1918, together with some like-minded friends Mir¨® founded ¡°Agrupaci¨® Courbet¡±, a group of young artists who opposed themselves to conservative traditions in Catalan art. In his works of 1913-17 the most important are the influences of C¨¦zanne and the Fauvists: objects are close to each other and shine with bright and broken colors; striped patterns make up a kind of decorative ornament... .... |
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