Joan Mirò

Following a nervous breakdown caused by his business studies and his work as an accountant, in strong contrast with his artistic vocation, in 1912 he began attending the Galí Academy in Barcelona.

His initial inclinations were in favor of Impressionism and Fauvism, but his move to Paris in 1919 defined his surrealist orientation.

Here he met Picasso and the Dadaists, but the meeting with Max Ernst and his circle made him the "most surrealist of the surrealists".

In 1928, in Paris, he held the exhibition that made him famous, at the Barnheim Gallery and from the 1930s he began to experiment with lithography, etching and sculpture.

His works are the lyrical and symbolic representation of reality. Evocative transposition of the impulses of the unconscious and memory; a crowding of elementary graphic signs and deformations with bright and brilliant colors immersed in a suspended and enchanted atmosphere.

Miró completely abandoned traditional painting in favor of abstraction.

After the civil war, he returned to Spain and lived between Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca.

In these years he created the famous Constellations and from the 1940s he created numerous mural decorations and monumental sculptures (Hotel Terrcace Palace in Cincinnati -1947, UNESCO Palace in Paris -1958).

In 1972 he founded the Fundació Joan Miró and in recent years he was awarded numerous prizes and recognitions.

In 1980 the Catalan Master inspired the Maggio Mirò in Montecatini Terme.

His friend Carlos Franqui, then resident in the spa town, was the organizer and guaranteed the artist's presence.
Who created as a gift to the city that celebrates him Dona Voltada d’un Vol d’Ocells, in Italian Woman wrapped in a bird's flight.

Unfortunately, the artist never came to Montecatini due to a domestic accident, but the large canvas is now exhibited at the Mo.C.A. – Montecatini Terme Comtemporary Art.

Mirò died three years later, in 1983, in Palma de Mallorca.