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.
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.
Miro died on Christmas Day 1983.
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