Joan miró childhood
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1893-1917
1893
Joan Miró i Ferrà is born on 20 April at 4 Passatge del Crèdit, Barcelona. His father, Miquel Miró i Adzerias, son of a blacksmith in Cornudella, was a silversmith and watchmaker; his mother, Dolors Ferrà i Oromí, was the daughter of a cabinet maker in Palma de Mallorca.
1900
He begins primary school at 13 Carrer del Regomir, Barcelona, where he attends drawing classes given by a Mr Civil.
1901
His earliest surviving drawings date from this year.
1907
He enrols at the Escola de Comerç in Barcelona and, until 1910, also attends classes at the Escola Superior d'Arts Industrials i Belles Arts (La Llotja), where he is taught by Modest Urgell and Josep Pascó.
1910
He starts work as an accounts clerk at Dalmau i Oliveres chemist's shop in Barcelona. He takes part in his first exhibition, a display of old and modern portraits and drawings organised by the city council.
1911
He struggles to adapt to his job at Dalmau i Oliveres and his health suffers. He catches typhoid fever and spends time convales
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Joan Miro Biography
Joan Miro Ferra was an influential 20th-century painter, sculptor, ceramicist and printmaker, who was born in 1893 in the Catalan region of Spain, near Barcelona. He began drawing as a young boy, and later attended a business school, as well as La Lonja School of Fine Arts. At the latter school, he was encouraged by two teachers; one encouraged him to revive the spirit of primitive Catalan art, combining it with modern discoveries and techniques. (This was in the beginning of the 20th century, at the time modern art was just beginning in Europe, and the creative climate was energetic and progressive.) As a youth, he was exposed to the rich folklore of Catalonia, which later influenced his images, such as how he saw all-natural forms as beings, including pebbles and trees. He was also exposed to complete interiors of ninth to twelfth-century frescoed churches in visits to the Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona, with their relatively crude execution and their simple, flat and cartoon-like imagery. They also used primary colors, all heavily outlined in black, with
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Joan Miro Timeline
Joan Miró i Ferrà is born on April 20 in Barcelona, Spain; his father is Miquel Miró Adzerias and his mother is Dolors Ferrà.
Miró takes drawing lessons at a private school at Carrer del Regomir 13, a medieval mansion.
At the age of fourteen, he enrolls in business school while concurrently taking art classes at the Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes.
Miró exhibits his first painting at the sixth Exposición Internacional de Arte in Barcelona.
He begins his studies with Francesc Galí at the Escola d’Art.
Paints Seated Nude Holding a Flower.
In February, Miró has his first solo exhibition at the Galeries Dalmau.
Miró paints Vines Olive Trees, Tarragona
With the help of Josep Dalmau, Miró travels in February to Paris, where he meets Pablo Picasso, Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, André Masson, and Tristan Tzara, and begins working in a studio on the rue Blomet.
Paints Horse, Pipe, and Red Flower
Dalmau organizes Miró’s first solo show in Paris at Galerie La Licorne.
In February, less than a year after the publication
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