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Miquel Barcelo

Miquel Barcelo (Born 1957) is active/lives in Spain, France.  Miquel Barcelo is 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 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. Pollock had a big impact on him) influenced Barceló's work; on the other hand he was always particular   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11444 characters.]  Artist bio

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