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Joan Miro was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona. Resisting being pigeon holed as an artist in a particular style, it is his use of sexual symbols and a great interest in automatism that earned him recognition as a surrealist artist. Some of his work, however, shows inspiration from the Dada movement.

Miro studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, and then moved to Paris in 1923. It was there that he met German surrealist Max Ernst, and together they designed several pieces for Sergei Diaghilev, a Russian art critic. It was this collaboration that produced the surrealist painting technique known as grattage, where paint is scraped off of the canvas with a trowel.

Later in his career, Miro moved away from painting to focus on other mediums, including ceramics and sculpting. Two of the most famous of the hundreds of ceramics pieces he created – The Wall of the Moon and The Wall of the Sun - are on display at the UNESCO Building in Paris. He also created temporary paintings on glass windows for an exhibit in his later years. It was toward the end of his life that he began writing some of his most unusual ideas, including gas sculpting.

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Joan Miro was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona.

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VocabularyVocabulary pigeon(N.) N.: a person who is easily fooled or cheated. Synonym –   Example sentence: He’s being exploited because he’s pigeon.

Particular (ADJ.) Adj.: special than general, involved in a specific person, thing, class, etc. N.: an individual or distinct part Particularly (ADV.) Particularize(VI.) Particularity(N.) Synonym: special, specific, discrete, distinct, individual or notable, etc. Example sentence:  The immune system works, in part, by making antibodies that are specific to

particular sorts  of hostile molecule.   

Surrealist(ADJ.) Adj.: related to a fantastic, unreal or dreaming especially in art.

Surreal(Adj.) Surreality,Surrealism (N.) Surreally (Adv.) Synonym: unrealistic or dreamlike Example sentence: This movie is about the surrealist or

fantastic person. Critic(N.) N.: a person who judges, evaluates or analyzes. Synonym: reviewer or judge Example sentence: There wasn’t enough meat on the

bones for this critic.

Trowel (N.) N.: Kind of tools with a flat blade, used for working mortar, plaster or gardening, etc. V.: to apply, shape, smooth, spread, or dig. Synonym – Example sentence: Grab your trowel and park it in the museum  of garden artifacts.

Exhibit(VT.) VT.: to offer or expose to view, to place on show. VI.: to make or give an exhibition; present something to public view. exhibitable(ADJ.) exhibitor, exhibiter, exhibitant(N.) pre-exhibit (N., VT) re-exhibit (VT) self-exhibted(ADJ.) Synonym: show, demonstrate, represent, display or evince, etc. Example sentence: View hundreds of flowers in a breathtaking indoor exhibit.

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In Miro gallery, written in 2009 in Surrealism, the author tries to describe biography of Joan Miro.

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Joan Miro was recognized as a surrealist artist. He studied in Barcelona and moved to Paris. He met Max Ernst there, and they designed Grattage, the technique in painting. Later, Miro shifted his attention to other mediums, also represented in Paris. He also created temporary paintings, but they ruined his life that he began writing unusual ideas.

Paraphrase 1Paraphrase 1It was there that he met German surrealist Max Ernst, and together they designed several pieces for Sergei Diaghilev, a Russian art critic.

Synonym : design –create

pieces –artwork

Move phrase : Russian art critic (start) several artworks (end)

voice : met- were met

design – were created

He and German surrealist, Max Ernst, were met each other there, and a Russian art critic, Segei Diaghilev, received several artworks which were created by them.

Paraphrase 2Paraphrase 2It was this collaboration that produced the surrealist painting technique known as grattage, where paint is scraped off the canvas with trowel.

Synonym: collaboration-cooperation

produce-create

scrape off-wipe off

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Move phrase: It was this collaboration...[START] move to [END]

Voice: It was this collaboration... - was created by the cooperation

Grattage is a technique of surrealist painting that paint is wiped off the canvas with trowel, which was created by the cooperation.

Paraphrase 3Paraphrase 3Two of the most famous of the hundreds of ceramics pieces he created - The Wall of the Moon and The Wall of the Sun - are on display at the UNESCO Building in Paris

Synonym: most famous-best known, on display-show

hundreds-many, piece-work

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Move phrase: are shown in Paris...[END] move to [START]

Voice: are on display... - are shown...

The Wall of the moon and The Wall of The Sun are shown in Paris at the building of UNESCO Which are the best known of many ceramics works created be him.

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