PAINTER

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 Catalan 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Miró has received more than 3,002,169 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Joan Miró is the 37th most popular painter (up from 38th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Spain (up from 22nd 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 37 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan van Eyck, Edgar Degas, Marc Chagall, Jacques-Louis David, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Giotto. After him are René Magritte, Masaccio, Gustave Courbet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, and Tintoretto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Joan Miró ranks 3. Before him are Mao Zedong, and Hermann Göring. After him are Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ip Man, Alfred Rosenberg, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Walter Ulbricht, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Carol II of Romania, Alexander of Greece, and Soong Ching-ling. Among people deceased in 1983, Joan Miró ranks 2. Before him is Louis de Funès. After him are Garrincha, Leopold III of Belgium, Luis Buñuel, Umberto II of Italy, Hergé, Idris of Libya, Jon Brower Minnoch, Felix Bloch, Tennessee Williams, and Meyer Lansky.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joan Miró ranks 21 out of 3,355. Before him are Pope Alexander VI (1431), Isabella I of Castile (1451), Ignatius of Loyola (1491), Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503), Francisco Pizarro (1478), and Joanna of Castile (1479). After him are Ibn Arabi (1165), Charles II of Spain (1661), Maimonides (1138), Francis Xavier (1506), Saint Lawrence (225), and Philip IV of Spain (1605).

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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 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617), Francisco de Zurbarán (1598), Juan Gris (1887), Joaquín Sorolla (1863), Antoni Tàpies (1923), Enrique Simonet (1866), and Marià Fortuny (1838).

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