Joan Miro

A surrealist painter of the abstract school that relied for its images on "automatic" thoughts or writings produced without, or so they said, representational creativity. Miro may be compared to Rene Magritte, the exponenent of the representational branch of surrealism that depicted the familiar as the unfamiliar.

Miro married [Pilar Juncosa]? in [Palma de Mallorca]? on [[October 12, 1929]].

One of the most radical of surrealist theorists (the founder of surrealism, [Andre Breton]?, would describe Miro as "the most surrealist of us all"), Miro expressed his contempt for painting (at least as conventionally thought of) and his desire to "murder" and "assassinate" it in favor of new means of expression, in numerous writings and interviews from the 1930s on.

In the last years of his life Miro wrote his most radical and least-known ideas, exploring the possibilities of [[gas sculpture]] and [[four dimensional painting]].

Miro died on Christmas Day 1983.

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