Joan Miro
Joan Miro was born at Montroig near Barcelona on April 20th 1893 and was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona at the age of 14. In 1919 he went to Paris for the first time, where he made friends with Picasso. He settled there in 1920 and joined the Dadaist movement. In 1921 he had his first exhibition in Paris. In 1925, he joined the Surrealists. In 1930 he did his first lithographs for Tristan Tzara's L'Arbredes Voyageurs. In 1938 he executed his first drypoints, the black and red series and his first linocut. In 1944 he did the set of 50 lithographs in black and white entitled Barcelona. From 1948 to 1950 he did 72 colour lithographs for Tzara's 'Parler Seul' and in 1950 he completed his first colour woodcuts. In 1954 he was awarded the Graphic Art Prize at the Venice Biennale. In 1958, he finished his hundred colour woodcuts for Eluard's Atoure Epreuve.