Joan Miró i Ferrà [ʒuˈan miˈɾo i fəˈra] (* April 20 1893 in Barcelona, Catalonia; † December 25 1983 in Palma) was a spanish–catalan Painter, Graphic designer, Sculptor and Ceramist.
His early works, building on Catalan folk art, show influences of the Cubism and of the Fauvism on. From the early to mid-1920s, the artist completed in Paris, influenced by the prevailing art movements there of the Dadaism and Surrealism, the fundamental change in style that led him away from representationalism. Miró belongs as a representative of the Classical Modern with his imaginative pictorial motifs is one of the most popular artists of the 20th century. His magical symbols for moon, stars, bird, eye and woman are among the most famous elements of his art. The disturbing late work, such as the series Toiles brûlées (Burnt canvases) was a staged destruction, a protest against the commercialization of art, and an expression of his demand to "murder painting". In public space, for example, his ceramic walls adorn the UNESCO-building in Paris and the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen am Rhein; monumental sculptures have been erected in squares in Barcelona and Chicago, among other places.
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