Joan Miro

Joan Miro was born in Barcelona on April 1893 and died on December 25 1983. Although he was born in Barcelona, his heart was tied to the town he grew up in, Mallorca.  His father was a watchmaker named Miquel Miro i Adzerias who married a goldsmith named Dolors Ferra. Joan started drawing classes at age seven and in 1907 enrolled at the fine art academy.  He studied at Cercle Artistic de sant Lluc and also went to business school to please his father. Joan married a woman named Pilar Juncosa Iglesias and they had one daughter named Dolors.  Five major world/historical events he was alive for were Russian Revolution/ "bloody sunday", world war I, world war II, Spanish Civil War, and when Picasso introduced Cubism. He struggled with his first art show being mocked and defaced, then when the Spanish civil war started he was unable to return home like he did every summer, and when he was older Joan struggled with heart disease. People might not know that he has a museum dedicated to him. He worked with painting, sculpture, mural, and ceramics. He is associated with the Surrealism movement. His most famous works include Dona i Ocell, the smile of a tear, and Blue. I like his painting The Song of the Vowels, its a simple green background with a long line of thick black letters all jumbled and scrambled together. I also enjoy Blue II, a painting with only one black line and one thick red line.