Vintage Joan Miro Double Deck Playing Cards

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Nice vintage set of playing cards from Spain featuring artist Joan Miro. Joan Miró i Ferrà, 20 April 1893 – … more Nice vintage set of playing cards from Spain featuring artist Joan Miro. Joan Miró i Ferrà, 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
Probably purchased in Barcelona in the museum dedicated to him. less