biography
pronunciation:
[meeroh, hwan]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1983)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Barcelona, NE Spain. After an unhappy period as a clerk, he studied in Paris and Barcelona, and exhibited with the Surrealists in 1925. In his early years he had great admiration for primitive Catalan art and the Art Nouveau forms of Gaudi's architecture. In 1920 he settled in Paris and invented a manner of painting using curvilinear, fantastical forms which suggest all kinds of dreamlike situations. His paintings are predominantly abstract, and his humorous fantasy makes play with a restricted range of pure colours and dancing shapes, as in ‘Catalan Landscape’ (1923–4, New York City). His other work includes ballet sets, sculptures, murals, and tapestries. |
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