Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Joan Miro (Spanish Artist)

Joan Miró (1893–1983,) fully Joan Miró i Ferrà, was a Spanish painter who combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. An expressionist pioneer, he is celebrated for his immersive, intense fields of color consisting of variously spiky and amoebic calligraphic forms against simple backgrounds.

Born in Barcelona, Miró studied in Paris and Barcelona and exhibited with the Surrealists in 1925. In his early years, he developed a high regard for primitive Catalan art and the Art Nouveau forms of Antoni Gaudi’s architecture.

Before World War I, Miró painted in Cezannesque and Fauve styles, but in 1920, he settled in Paris and met Picasso and Juan Gris. Fascinated by Surrealism, Miró invented a painting style using curvilinear, fantastical forms, which evoke dreamlike, imaginary situations.

Miró’s entirely abstract mature style evolved from the tension between his whimsical, rhythmical impulse, and mental picture of the starkness of modern life. He worked extensively in lithography and produced murals, ballet sets, sculptures, murals, and tapestries.

Miró had a significant influence on American Abstract Expressionist artists such as Arshile Gorky in the late 1940s and 1950s. His notable works include ‘The Hunter (Catalan Landscape)’ (1923–24; New York’s Museum of Modern Art) and Maternity (1924.)

The Fundació Joan Miró (1975) in Barcelona and Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró (1981) in Palma de Mallorca run museums dedicated to his work.

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For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
Joan Miro

The simplest things give me ideas.
Joan Miro
Topics: Value of a Day, Time Management

The more I work, the more I want to work.
Joan Miro
Topics: Work

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