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1 Joan Miro Surrealist The creatures or figures in Miro's paintings appear almost as if they are cartoons, taking up the entire canvas so that the viewer doesn't focus on merely one aspect of the scene. Let’s look!

2 Joan Miro ( )  Joan Miró Ferra was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona, into the family of a goldsmith and watchmaker. Miró 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 Joan Miró 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 José Pasco Merisa Joan Miro

3 Joan Miro, Carnival of Harlequin, 1924

4 Joan Miro, Nocturne.

5 Ciphers and Constellations, in Love with a Woman. 1941.
Gouache and terpentine on paper. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Ciphers and Constellations, in Love with a Woman Joan Miro,

6 Joan Miro, The Hunter

7 Joan Miro, Hand Catching a Bird

8 By Joan Miro

9 By Joan Miro

10 May 1968. 1973. Acrylic on canvas. 200 x 200 cm.
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

11 Joan Miro, Swallow/Love. 1934. Oil on canvas. 199. 3 x 247. 6 cm
Joan Miro, Swallow/Love Oil on canvas x cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York


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