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JOAN MIRÓ
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The Fundació Joan Miró Archive: Awareness of and Responsibility for a Legacy
Emotion and Respect
One enters the Fundació’s archive quietly, almost on tiptoe. Not because there are any rules to that effect – simply because you know you are stepping into the artist’s most intimate realm. Teresa Montaner has been in charge of the archive for years, and recounts the first time she had access to Miró’s “papers” thanks to the Fundació’s then director Rosa Maria Malet and head of conservation Carme Escudero.
She knew Miró from his finished work, as it was presented at university within the syllabus for the overall history of modern art, and also the Miró she had seen in museums. At the time, Alexandre Cirici had already referred to Miró’s papers, Gaetan Picon had published the Carnets Catalans and Pere Gimferrer was writing The Roots of Miró, but in the university, artists were rarely approached in terms of their work processes. “Discovering Miró through his drawings was thrilli
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Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà (mi-ROH, US also mee-ROH; Catalan:[ʒuˈanmiˈɾojfəˈra]; 20 April – 25 December ) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in , and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in
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. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.