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Miquel Barcelo BIOGRAPHY
Born 1957 Felantix, Mallorca, Spain. Known for: Modernist-leaning landscapes, ceramics.
After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, Miquel Barcelo enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in... Read full biography
After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, Miquel Barcelo enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in the happenings and actions of protest of the group "Taller Lunatic", a conceptual avantgarde group.... Read full biography
After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, Miquel Barcelo enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in the happenings and actions of protest of the group "Taller Lunatic", a conceptual avantgarde group. All of a sudden set free by the changed political circumstances, they felt an impulse to reexperience all they had gleaned from demonstrations of vanguardism both in European capitals and the United... Read full biography
After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, Miquel Barcelo enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in the happenings and actions of protest of the group "Taller Lunatic", a conceptual avantgarde group. All of a sudden set free by the changed political circumstances, they felt an impulse to reexperience all they had gleaned from demonstrations of vanguardism both in European capitals and the United States. He also took part in the creation of their artist periodical Neon de Suro (21 issues from 1957-1982), another reaction to the common belief in the 1970s, that painting was dead. A year after his return to Majorca he had his first one-man show... Read full biography
After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, Miquel Barcelo enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in the happenings and actions of protest of the group "Taller Lunatic", a conceptual avantgarde group. All of a sudden set free by the changed political circumstances, they felt an impulse to reexperience all they had gleaned from demonstrations of vanguardism both in European capitals and the United States. He also took part in the creation of their artist periodical Neon de Suro (21 issues from 1957-1982), another reaction to the common belief in the 1970s, that painting was dead. A year after his return to Majorca he had his first one-man show at the Palma Museum. Initially the Avant-garde*, Art Brut* and American Abstract Expressionism* (e.g. Pol... Read full biography
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Miguel Barcelo, Miquel Barceló, Miquel Barceló Artiques
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After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, Miquel Barcelo enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in the happenings and actions of protest of the group "Taller Lunatic", a conceptual avantgarde group. All of a sudden set free by the changed political circumstances, they felt an impulse to reexperience all they had gleaned from demonstrations of vanguardism both in European capitals and the United States. He also took part in the creation of their artist periodical Neon de Suro (21 issues from 1957-1982), another reaction to the common belief in the 1970s, that painting was dead.
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