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Joan Miró

1893 - 1983

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Joan Miró i Ferrà ( mi-ROH, US also mee-ROH; Catalan: [ʒuˈan miˈɾoj fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joan Miró is the 34th most popular painter (up from 37th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Spain (up from 21st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Spanish Painter.

Joan Miró is most famous for his surrealist paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joan Miró ranks 34 out of 2,023. Before him are Piet Mondrian, Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Amedeo Modigliani. After him are Marc Chagall, Jan van Eyck, Edgar Degas, Masaccio, Jacques-Louis David, and Tintoretto.

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Among people born in 1893, Joan Miró ranks 3. Before him are Mao Zedong, and Hermann Göring. After him are Ip Man, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Walter Ulbricht, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Leslie Howard, Allen Dulles, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and Alexander of Greece. Among people deceased in 1983, Joan Miró ranks 1. After him are Louis de Funès, Garrincha, Buckminster Fuller, Luis Buñuel, Umberto II of Italy, Leopold III of Belgium, Hergé, Albert Claude, Felix Bloch, Idris of Libya, and Jon Brower Minnoch.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joan Miró ranks 19 out of 3,355. Before him are Philip II of Spain (1527), Hadrian (76), Ignatius of Loyola (1491), Theodosius I (340), Isabella I of Castile (1451), and Saint Lawrence (225). After him are Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503), Joanna of Castile (1479), Francisco Pizarro (1478), Catherine of Aragon (1485), Pope Callixtus III (1379), and Francis Xavier (1506).

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Among PAINTERS In Spain

Among painters born in Spain, Joan Miró ranks 5. Before him are Pablo Picasso (1881), Salvador Dalí (1904), Francisco Goya (1746), and Diego Velázquez (1599). After him are Francisco de Zurbarán (1598), Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617), Juan Gris (1887), Joaquín Sorolla (1863), Antoni Tàpies (1923), Enrique Simonet (1866), and Francisco Pacheco (1564).

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