Why is joan miró famous

Though often pigeonholed as a Surrealist, the Catalan modernist Joan Miró considered his art to be free of any “ism.” He experimented feverishly throughout his career with different media—painting, pastel, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, collage, muralism, and tapestry—and unconventional materials as a way of making work that expressed the contemporary moment without relying on the tools of mimetic realism.

Miró was born on April 20, 1893, in Barcelona and grew up in a family of watchmakers.

At the age of fourteen, he enrolled in business school while concurrently taking art classes at the Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes. Miró exhibited his first painting at the sixth Exposición Internacional de Arte in Barcelona in 1911, an event that likely informed his decision to study with Francesc Galí at the Escola d’Art from 1912 to 1915.

Through his colleagues at school, Miró began frequenting the Galeries Dalmau, a burgeoning center of artist