BIOGRAPHY ABOUT MIRO TRANSLATED BY 2º ESO STUDENTS

1. Joan Miró
● ÍNDEX:
● BIRTH
● FAMILY
● STYLES
● PAINTINGS
● ACADEMY
● FOUNDATION
● FRIENDS
● COUNTRIES HE VISITED
● CURIOSITIES
● HIS SIGNATURE
● HIS RETIREMEN
TRANSALATED BY
Anna Abad, Paula Martín, Alejandra Arias, Iván Oricheta ,
Ángela Domínguez, Ricardo Delicado. 2 ESO F

2. His birth
● Joan Miró was born in Barcelona the 20 of April, 1893
● His parents, Miguel and Dolores, were disappointed
because they would have prefered a girl.

3. ● His father was Miquel Miró, son of a blacksmith, he made
a workshop in the near the Royal square in Barcelona.
● His mother was called Dolores Ferre, daughter of a
cabinetmaker.
● His wife was Pilar, together they had a daughter, they
called her Dolors.
● Joan y Pilar got married and they went to live near
Miguel´s workshop
His Family

4. Pilar
Miró said about his wife:
● “Without her, I would be an orphan lost in the world”
● “She is my guardian angel”

5. Although, being a painter, he was:
● Sculptor
● Muralist
● Worked with ceramic

6. Things he said:
● “It is beautiful to paint with the feet on the ground,
because the strenght comes through the feet”

7. All his styles
● His paintings were considered
surealistic.
● his painting style started being
abstract, however later he continued
with organic figures, conected lines.
● His compositions were based in dark
backgrounds, which were painted with
vivid colors,

8. Other styles
·Main styles:
impressonism surrealism
modernism

9. Woman, bird and star:
painted between 1966 and
1975. It´s one of his most
well-known paintings.
The harlequin´s carnival:
(1925) the artist tried to
convey“the hallucinations
he suffered due to hunger”.
Paintings

10. La masía: in 1992 he painted “la masía”, in which you
can see different buildings located in the nearabouts of
his parents house. He considered it as one of his most
important first period paintings.

11. ● In his paintings, he conveyed
his interest in childhood and in
Catalonia´s traditions and
culture.
● He was a surrealist painter,
but unlike other artists, such
as Dali, he was very reserved
and discreet.
Catalonia

12. ·His father forced him to atend a buissnes school, but
later he enrolled himself in a famous art academy. The
one in which Picasso had studied some years before.
(1907-1910)
JOAN
MIRÓ
PABLO
PICASSO
Academies

13. In 1975 Joan established his own foundation in Montjuic Park
(Barcelona). The building has been extended twice, once in
1987 and the other in 2001.
Miró created this foundation to guarantee that his paintings
would always be within the reach of people.
This foundation has become a key reference center on the
artist. It´s home to the largest collection of Miro´s works.
Foundation

14. Friends
· Some of his friends were:
1. Pablo Ruiz Picasso
2. Joan Prats
3. Josep Dalman
4. Maurice Raynal
5. Francis Picabia
6. André Breton
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15. Miró and Picasso met in Paris, and it was just then when their
strong friendship started, in which the 12 years difference
between them wasn't an important issue. Their different
styles weren't a problem neither, and they became stronger
over the years, so people considered them a reason for a
great rivalry between the two friends.

16. Miró in Paris
Miró left Spain when the Civil
War started and settled in Paris.
During those years he designed
posters for the republican army
and participated in the Spanish
Republican Pavilion, in the
Universal Exhibition of Paris in
1937.
The dark and shocking influence
of the war is conveyed in that
period´s paintings.

17. Miró en EEUU
In 1947 he made his first trip
to the United States where he
left important works: the great
mural at the Hilton Hotel, in
Cincinnati and, following that
same line, the mural at
Harvard University in 1950
He wanted to do a work that
communicated with the
general public.

18. The returned to Spain
Miró returned back to Spain in 1940 when
Hitler trops occupied Paris, and after living in
other places he finally settled in Palma de
Mallorca.
Since his returned to Spain he was one
referent of the youngests artists and he
started to be knew and recogniced
internationally.
In this moment Miro started expanding all
his works to others fields like the ceramic o

19. CURIOSITIES
● He was a bad student
● He was brave, but he was always very sick
● Tireless worker,introvert, early bird, observer, reader(He
read poetry and he had a library of 1700 books), .
● The house of his picture (la masía),was bought by a
north american poet, that he played dice, and lost it to a
friend of Miró.
● He created the logo of “La caixa”

20. ● He dressed like a dandy: suit, cane and hat
● Catalan to the core but apolitical
● Healthy life: I did a lot of sport: boxing, Swedish
gymnastics, walking.
● He dies in Palma de Mallorca, as does his daughter. Both
die from a heart attack, cardiac arrest.
● He died on christmas day
Something about his
curiosities

21. Assesine(of paint)
At a certain moment, Miró manifested his desire to "kill the
painting". In reality, he intended to experiment with new
materials, supports and techniques, although he once took the
motto to practice almost literally.

22. ·
● First exposure a total failure
On February 16, 1918, at the age of twenty-four, he
opened his first solo exhibition at the Dalmau Galleries
in Barcelona. There were no less than 64 works that
included landscapes, portraits and still lifes. The reviews
were not very complacent, and he did not sell a single
painting.

23. He imposed his definitive vocation after a retirement due to
illness.The family owned a farmhouse in Mont-roig, a town in
the Baix Camp region of Tarragona. There he retired at
nineteen to recover from typhoid fever. But, in addition to
breathing the healthy country air, he made the firm decision
not to dedicate himself to anything other than painting, with
the consequent displeasure of his parents.
He suffered a stroke from which he left with little mobility,
Miró died on December 25, 1983 in Palma de Mallorca
HIS RETIREMENT

24. Joan Miro´s signature