Joan Miró

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Joan Miró was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist renowned for his pioneering surrealist works characterized by bold colors, biomorphic forms, and a playful, dreamlike abstraction.

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Joan Miró canonical 69
Joan Miró i Ferrà 2
Miró 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Surrealist artist
ceramicist
human
painter
sculptor
awardReceived Gold Medal of Fine Arts (Spain)
Guggenheim International Award
countryOfCitizenship Spain
dateOfBirth 1893-04-20
dateOfDeath 1983-12-25
educatedAt Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc
La Llotja School of Fine Arts, Barcelona
surface form: La Llotja School of Fine Arts
ethnicGroup Catalan
familyName Joan Miró self-linksurface differs
surface form: Miró
fieldOfWork ceramics
drawing
painting
printmaking
sculpture
genre abstract art
surrealist painting
givenName Joan
hasMuseumDedicatedToWork Fundació Joan Miró
Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca
hasSpouse Pilar Juncosa
honor Honorary degree from the University of Barcelona
influencedBy Catalan folk art
Cubism
Fauvism
Surrealism
surface form: Surrealist automatism
movement Dada
Modern art
Surrealism
name Joan Miró self-linksurface differs
surface form: Joan Miró i Ferrà
nativeLanguage Catalan
notableWork Blue I
Blue II
Blue III
Constellations series
Dog Barking at the Moon
Harlequin's Carnival
The Farm
The Tilled Field
Woman and Bird
placeOfBirth Barcelona
Catalonia
Spain
placeOfDeath Balearic Islands
Mallorca
surface form: Majorca

Palma de Mallorca
signatureElement simplified, childlike forms
use of stars and celestial symbols
styleCharacteristic biomorphic forms
bold colors
dreamlike abstraction
playful imagery
workLocation Barcelona
Mallorca
Paris

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