Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1983)

Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. 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, Mallorca 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.

Born

1893

April 20

Died

1983

Era

1890s

Country

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Joan, in brief

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1893 Born
1983 Died

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The world in 1983

When Joan departed

april 12 Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
april 25 Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
april 25 Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
april 28 The West German news magazine Stern begins publishing excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.

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Allen Dulles 1893–1969 American lawyer and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (died 1969) Alois Hába 1893– Czech composer and educator (died 1973) Charles E. Burchfield 1893–1967 American painter (died 1967) Christopher Kelk Ingold 1893– British chemist (died 1970) Colin Fraser Barron 1893– Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1958) H. Bonciu 1893– Romanian author, poet, and journalist (died 1950) Herbert Read 1893–1968 English poet and critic (died 1968) Huey Long 1893–1935 American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (died 1935) Karl Mannheim 1893–1947 Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (born 1893)

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