Thanks to this challenge, he has engaged in regular correspondence with very interesting personalities, ranging from writers such as Salvador Espriu, Joan Fuster, Joan Valls or Vicent Andrés Estellés, to plastic artists like Picasso, Arcadi Blasco, Eusebi Sempere, Pablo Serrano, Joana Francés, Bruno Rinaldi or Manolo Boix, as well as art critics like Daniel Giralt, Wences Rambla, Romà de la Calle, Ernest Contreras and Fèlix Cucurull. Isolated as a result of his studies, either in Altea or at his property in Sopalmo, in the l’Alcoià county, he has nevertheless remained in contact with the most prestigious intellectuals of his time, both national and international.
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In a certain way, Miró’s later series have inherited his own critical purposes. This trend, while taking everyday life or historical narrative as a starting point, delves into popular roots and collective identity in order to find a plastic language which allows artists to denounce all power abuse. His work is thus within the expressive framework of what is known as social realism. The artist has always matched the purposes of his social content to the search for a new imaginary stemming from visual relief. With series such as “L’Home” (“Man”), starting in 1968, and “Amèrica Negra” (“Black America”), he set the foundations for his later work based on visual experiments in pop-art and social realism. Miró opted for a sharp, rough line emphasising the shapes of his images. Those were the last years of Franco’s regime and, faced with the lack of freedom, Miró conceived several series influenced by expressionism, such as “Les Nues” (“Naked Women”), “La Fam” (“Hunger”), “Els Bojos” (“Crazy People”), “Biafra”, “Vietnam”, “Mort” (“Death”) or “Realitats” (“Realities”). Painting has been his major activity since 1966. Antoni Miró’s artistic career runs parallel to his biography.
His work is consistently rigorous and marked by civic references, by the social commitment of an artist believing in intellectuals’ usefulness and powers of persuasion.
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Likewise, he has engaged in parallel artistic activities such as sculpture, posters, ceramics or drawing. Ever since he was very young, he has worked in his main passion: painting. Antoni Miró was born in Alcoi on 1 September 1944.
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