Miro, Joan

1893 - Born in Barcelona, Spain on the 20th of April.

1915-1919 - He worked in Barcelona, at Montroig, and on Majorca, painting landscapes, portraits, and nudes in which his interest centred on the rhythmic interplay of volumes and areas of colour.

1919 - He lived alternately in Spain and Paris.

1925-1928 - He painted “dream pictures” and “imaginary landscapes” in which the linear configurations and patches of colour look almost as though they were set down randomly.

1930 - He artistic horizons were expanding. He designed decor for ballets.

1934 - He designed tapestries, and that led to an interest in the monumental and in murals.

1930 - He was living in Paris. In their demonic expressiveness, his pictures of this period mirrored the fears and horrors of those years.

1937 - He painted for the pavilion of the Spanish Republic a mural, “The Reaper,” containing a strong element of social criticism.

1948 - He once more divided his time between Spain and Paris.

1950 - He painted a wall for Harvard University.

1958 - Received the Great International Prize of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

1962 - Paris honoured him with the first major exhibition of his collected works in the National Museum of Modern Art.

1980 - His receipt of Spain's Gold Medal of Fine Arts, a plaza in Madrid was named in Miró's honour.

1983 - Died in Palma, Majorca, Spain on the 25th of December.