2. What is the text about?
This text is about biography of Joan Miro.
3. Miro Gallery
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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Main idea
Joan Miro was born on April 20, 1893 in
Barcelona.
The first sentence of this paragraph shows the
beginning of Miro’s biography.
7. Vocabulary
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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Summary
Part 1
In Miro gallery, written in 2009 in Surrealism, the author tries to
describe biography of Joan Miro.
Part 2
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.
11. Paraphrase 1
It 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.
12. Paraphrase 2
It 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
Word form: n/a
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.
13. Paraphrase 3
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
Synonym: most famous-best known, on display-show
hundreds-many, piece-work
Word form: n/a
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.
