Trenhotel paris barcelona joan miro biography

Born in , Joan Miró was a famous, Spanish Catalan artist. He did works in sculpture, painting, and worked as a ceramist. Born in the seaport city of Barcelona, much of his work was influenced by the scenic seaside town, and the distinct style that he found in the area.

His father was a watchmaker, and his mother worked as a goldsmith, which means that he was exposed to the arts, and working with various forms of art, from a young age in the home. Some of the work that has been recovered, stems back to , when Joan Miró was only 8 years old.

Miro initially went to business school as well as art school.

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He began his working career when he was a teenager as a clerk. In , Miro overcame a serious battle with typhoid illness, and at about the same time he abandoned the business world completely to devote his entire life to painting.

Miro's early art, like that of the similarly influenced Fauves and Cubists exhibited in Barcelona, was inspired by works of V