Joan Miró, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joan Miró

Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1893

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 25-Dec-1983

Profession: painter, sculptor, postage stamp designer, ceramist, lithographer

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mi-ROH, also US: mee-ROH, Catalan: [?u'am mi'?o j f?'ra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.
A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981. 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, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.



Alternative names	Carl Van Vetchen; Carl van Vechten
Description	American writer and photographer
Date of birth/death	17 June 1880	21 December 1964
Location of birth/death	Cedar Rapids	New York City
Authority control	: Q312851 VIAF: 5056030 ISNI: 0000 0001 1558 7789 ULAN: 500058409 LCCN: n78095475 NLA: 35576955 WorldCat