I have chosen Joan Miró, one of the most important painters of Catalonia. In my opinion his paintings are very interesting.
Joan Miró I Ferrà (Barcelona, 20 April 1893 – Palma, 25 December 1983) was a painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist Catalan, considered one of the leading representatives of surrealism.
His life:
Joan Miró was born in 1893, where his father, Miquel Miró Adzeries had a workshop of silversmith and watchmaker. There he met Dolores Oromí I Ferrà. They got married and established his residence. Then they had two sons: Joan and Dolores.
He studied commerce, according to his father’s desire, to get a good education and get to be ‘someone’s life. Joan also wanted study art in Llotja school drawing, and be able to attend night classes, his father accepted it like a hobby for the boy.
With seventeen years he finished his studies in commerce and went to work for two years until illness forced him to retire. When he returned to Barcelona, had already decided to be a painter (also had parental permission).
His paintings:
Surrealism is the most important movimet in the interwar period, and quite possibly the most influential of them all. It was created in 1924 from, and around the Surrealist Manifest by André Breton, his spiritual guide.This artistic movement, intellectual and cultural in general is oriented around the pursuit of the liberation of the mind, using creative and critical faculties of the unconscious state and achieving a different reality that everyday reality. For many Surrealists, this research reach beyond reality and one that incorporates elements of imagination and the unconscious has manifested itself in the attempt to carry out a revolution in personal, cultural, political and social Sometimes conceived or described as a complete transformation of life through liberty, poetry, love and sex.
Here I have put two important works of Miro. One of them is “La masia”. It’soil painting which was created in 1921. It’s exposed in the National Gallery of Art de Washington (USA). It represents the familiar world of Miró.
The other one is “Carnaval d’Arlequí”. It’s also an oil painting made in 1924. The painter tried to represent the the hallucinations which are produced by hunger. You can see it in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (USA)
