Place to see: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

About this place:

Barcelona: Everybody knows Gaudi or Picasso, but a few knows Joan Miró.
Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was an ethnic Catalan ( painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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 bourgeoise society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting

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  • henk goossens

    17 May 2008
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    Barcelona: Everybody knows Gaudi or Picasso, but a few knows Joan Miró.
    Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was an ethnic Catalan ( painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

    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 bourgeoise society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting

Parc de Montjuïc
Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

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on 15 May 2008.
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