Joan Miró

Birth name: Joan Miró i Ferrà

Born: 20 April 1893, Barcelona, Spain

Died: 25 December 1983, Palma, Majorca, Spain (aged 90)

Spouse: Pilar Juncosa Iglesias (1929–1983)

Nationality: Spanish

Field: Painting, Sculpture, Mural, and Ceramics

Training: Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Llotja, Escuela de Arte de Francesco Galí, Circulo Artístico de Sant Lluc, 1907–1913

Movement: Surrealism, Dada, Personal, Experimental

Influenced by: André Masson, Pablo Picasso, Tristan Tzara, and André Breton

Influenced: Arshile Gorky

Awards: 1954 Venice Biennale Grand Prize for Graphic Work, 1958 Guggenheim International Award, 1980 Gold Medal of Fine Arts, Spain