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Artist Biography

Joan Miró I Ferra was born in Montroig, near Barcelona. Aged eight years, he was drawing regularly from the Spanish landscape; from 1907-1909 he attended the Lonja School of Fine Arts and from 1912-1915 he studied at the Gali School of Art in Barcelona. After graduating from art school, Miró produced bold, colourful portraits and landscapes in the Fauve manner. In 1918 Miró had his first solo show in Barcelona and in 1919 he made his first trip to Paris where he met poets, Surrealists and Cubists, with whom he would form important relationships which greatly influenced his work.

For Miró, the aim of art was to rediscover the sources of human feeling, to create poetry by way of painting, using a vocabulary of signs and symbols, plastic metaphors, and subconscious dream images to express definite themes. Miró never fully subscribed to any pre-existing artistic doctrine and is quoted as saying he wished to 'assassinate' painting; he disliked the bourgeoisie and was against the use of art as a means to promote propaganda and cultural identity among the wealthy. Miró produced work which he hoped could reach the great masses; his work, even when veering towards abstraction, always maintains a connection to nature, humanity and the cosmos.

Miró's work is held in many private and public collections internationally. His painting "La caresse des etoies" was sold recently for 17 million dollars at auction in Christies, New York.