Joan Miro (1893 \u2013 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundaci\u00f3 Pilar i Joan Mir\u00f3, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.<\/p>\n
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Mir\u00f3 expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an \u201cassassination of painting\u201d in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.<\/p>\n
Mir\u00f3 has been a significant influence on late 20th-century art, in particular the American abstract expressionist artists such as Motherwell, Calder, Gorky, Pollock, Matta and Rothko, while his lyrical abstractions and color field paintings were precursors of that style by artists such as Frankenthaler, Olitski and Louis and others. His work has also influenced modern designers, including Paul Rand and Lucienne Day and influenced recent painters such as Julian Hatton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joan Miro (1893 \u2013 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundaci\u00f3 Pilar i Joan Mir\u00f3, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in…<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/template_biography.php","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-475","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","col-sm-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriethalberg.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriethalberg.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriethalberg.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriethalberg.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriethalberg.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/galeriethalberg.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/galeriethalberg.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriethalberg.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}