{"id":90348,"date":"2017-10-10T23:27:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T21:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=90348"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T09:02:17","slug":"portrait-artist-fundacio-joan-miro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/portrait-artist-fundacio-joan-miro\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Of An Artist: Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spain is a nation proud of its <strong>art<\/strong> and <strong>architecture<\/strong> throughout the country, but the city of Barcelona served as the birthplace of many artists and is full of surviving symbols of their past, which remains modern in today&#8217;s standards. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/difference-spanish-catalan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalan<\/a><\/strong> culture has galleries in every neighborhood, digging into different eras, and touching along different types of work. One of the most notable <strong>galleries<\/strong> for visitors and locals to visit is the<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmirobcn.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3<\/a>.<\/strong> <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/neighborhood-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best neighborhoods for culture in Barcelona<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/portrait-artist-fundacio-joan-miro\/#The_Assassin_Of_Convential_Painting\" title=\"The &#8220;Assassin&#8221; Of Convential Painting\">The &#8220;Assassin&#8221; Of Convential Painting<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/portrait-artist-fundacio-joan-miro\/#Visions_Of_A_Masterstroke\" title=\"Visions Of A Masterstroke\">Visions Of A Masterstroke<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Assassin_Of_Convential_Painting\"><\/span>The &#8220;Assassin&#8221; Of Convential Painting<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_90350\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90350\" class=\"wp-image-90350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Portrait_of_Joan_Miro_Barcelona_1935_June_13-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"283\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-90350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Miro (1935): Photographed by Carl Van Vechten Courtesy of Library of Congress<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Joan Mir\u00f3 i Ferr\u00e0<\/strong> (1893 &#8211; 1983) was a Barcelona-born Surrealist, Dada, and experimental realist whose career expanded for over sixty years until his passing in his adoptive hometown in Majorca. His love of drawing let to his attendence two noted art schools,\u00a0<strong>Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Llotja<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Circulo Art\u00edstico de Sant Lluc.\u00a0<\/strong>After his first solo showcasing in 1918, Miro moved to Paris to join the growing the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/arts-streets-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">art<\/a><\/strong> community that followed the First World War and entered the Surrealist movement with his unorthodox style, subtle symbolism, and development of pictorial sign language. He would continue to progress with this style throughout his career, infusing all of the art genres into his works. Miro famously said he work was an &#8220;assassination of painting&#8221; because of his contempt mainstream <strong>art<\/strong>, which he saw as propoganda for the wealthy class, as well as towards <strong>art<\/strong> critics, who he felt had already decided what was a good piece before they even saw the paintings or sculptures. Nevertheless, Miro was awarded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guggenheim.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Guggenheim International Award<\/strong><\/a> and Spain&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Gold Medal of Fine Arts<\/strong> for his achievements, and was cited as an influence by post-WWII artists. In 1975, on the hill <b>Montju\u00efc<\/b>, Miro would open the\u00a0foundation and <strong>art studies<\/strong> centre in his name to help influence young aspiring <strong>artists<\/strong> and showcase his lifelong work to the public.<\/p>\n<div data-tiqets-widget=\"discovery\" data-currency=\"EUR\" data-language=\"en\" data-cards-layout=\"horizontal\" data-partner=\"shbarcelona\" data-product-ids=\"1012495,975261,973973,977743\"><\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/widgets.tiqets.com\/loader.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Visions_Of_A_Masterstroke\"><\/span>Visions Of A Masterstroke<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_90352\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90352\" class=\"wp-image-90352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/art-1115977__480-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"309\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-90352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dona I Ocell by Joan Miro, via Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The<strong> Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3\u00a0<\/strong>has a massive portfolio of the artist&#8217;s own paintings, drawings, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/museums-barcelona-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sculptures<\/a><\/strong> located inside and the building&#8217;s exterior. The building itself a beautiful piece of architecture created by Miro&#8217;s friend, <strong>Josep Llu\u00eds Sert<\/strong>, a notable architect of Barcelona&#8217;s pre-Civil War infrustructure and designer for post-WWII buildings in New York City and Paris. The inside include eight various themes set throughout Miro&#8217;s life that examine his artistic ideology and dissect each piece of work. The major works from Miro&#8217;s own collection include <strong>Portrait of a Young Girl<\/strong> (1919), the controversial <strong>Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excriment<\/strong> (1935), <strong>Double-Sided Monolith\u00a0<\/strong>(1956)\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>The Gold of the Azure\u00a0<\/strong>(1967). Another exhibition room named\u00a0<strong>Espai 13<\/strong>\u00a0is the platform for all upcoming artists and curators, giving a voice to the aspiring. The building&#8217;s foyer is also a gallery for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/panoramic-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photographs<\/a><\/strong> for other photographers and there are various tours for visitors that give an in-depth look at Miro&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/arts-streets-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Discover arts in the streets of Barcelona<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a feat of architecture lies a whole collection of paintings, pictures, and sculptures that raise awareness to <strong>art<\/strong> of the past that is\u00a0<strong>Joan Mir\u00f3&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>work. He prided himself on what he did and always believed in helping others achieve the goals in making creations that are original and spellbounding. When he moved on to open his foundacion to the public, it was an act of freedom from the end of censorship in the country and an establishment into the new Spain that people would be seeing. Work that could not be shown before was finally on the walls. He has long been gone, but the museum lives on in his memory as thousands of visitors per year take a look at the stroke of genius he was and the rising stars in Barcelona&#8217;s <strong>artistic<\/strong> world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Looking for an apartment in the city? 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