Miró's fame and recognition became international during the 1930's and during his lifetime retrospectives took place at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1941, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (1962) Grand Palais, Paris (1974) and in 1978 the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, exhibited over five hundred works in a major retrospective of his drawings. Miró's works in public spaces include the Miss Chicagosculpture, Chicago Figure and Birds, Houston Project for a Monument, Milan the ceramic mural on the front of the Palacio de Congresos, Madrid two ceramic murals, Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon, at Unesco headquarters, Paris and Lovers Playing with Almond Blossom in La Défense, Paris. The forms in the paintings from this period, amorphous amoebic shapes termed biomorphic, are usually painted in a limited range of bright colors, primarily blue, red, yellow, green, and black. In his mature style, which soon became a hallmark of Surrealist art, Miró drew on memory, fantasy, and the irrational to create works of art that are visual metaphors of surrealist poetry, paintings that became known as 'peinture-poésie.' These dreamlike visions, with gestural abstract signs and symbols as well as written words, have a whimsical or humorous quality but also appeal to an art of the spirit. He passed away aged 90 in Palma, Spain in 1983.Įarly works by Miró reflect his focus on Fauvism and Cubism and the influence of the powerful, flat two-dimensionality of Catalan folk art and Romanesque church frescoes of his native Spain. From 1920 onward, he lived and worked alternatively in Paris and in Spain, where he definitely settled in 1956. After graduating from business school, he attended two art academies in Barcelona, completing his education at the Escola d'Art. A painter, sculptor and ceramicist, Joan Miró was a major figure of twentieth century art, who was born in 1893 in Barcelona, Spain.
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