Joan Miró

Joan Miró Ferra was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja’s Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes in the same city…

In 1938, Miró immersed himself in the etching techniques at the workshop of Louis Marcoussis, a fellow painter and an accomplished printmaker who had his own printing press. It was the poet Tristan Tzara who introduced the two artists. It must have been a sympathetic environment, for Miró made twenty-two prints, exploring the medium’s potential for scratched lines, concentrated intensity when executed on small-scale copperplates, and inherent capacity for thematic variation…

Foundation Joan Miro.

14 Works in the TATE collection

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.)