Joan Mir

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Joan Miró (1893 - 1983)
Self-Portrait. 1917
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Carnival of Harlequin. 1923/24
Joan Miro was a Spanish surrealist artist. His
art is drawn from the realm of memory and
imaginative fantasy.
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Catalan Landscape 1924

• Miros work shows the following influences
• bright colors of the Fauves
• broken forms of cubism
• flat two-dimensionality of folk art and church
  frescoes
• of his native Spain

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Personage Throwing a Stone at a Bird. 1926
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Miro depicts dreamlike visions. His art has a
whimsical or humorous quality. His paintings
contain images of playfully distorted animal
forms, twisted organic shapes, and odd geometric
constructions.
Dutch Interior I. 1928
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Painting. 1933
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Ciphers and Constellations, in Love with a Woman.
1941
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Women and Birds at Sunrise. 1946
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Woman in Front of the Sun. 1950
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The Gold of the Azure. 1967