Catalonia is home to many famous artists for example, Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies. Both of these artists are none to be extremely famous; Joan Miro is known as Catalonias most famous artist and Antoni Tapies is known as the most famous European artist of our time. Joan Miro born in 1893 and later passed in 1983 is inspired by surrealism and dada; he is best known for his paintings, sculptures and even ceramics. As for Antoni Tapies he is best known for his paintings, sculptures and lithography; his style could be described as pop art or abstract expressionism. In fact, Tapies was influenced by Miro but, later veered off and was known for his style called pintura materica (Yohan 2015).
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The reason for this is because he joined a surrealist group and he gained notoriety, fame all around the world. Some would say that this lead the surrealist movement. Dali was well known for fro hi showman ship when displaying his art allowed his career to continue to go on as well as allowing him to maintain his relevancy still today. Although some say that he did few pieces of art for the surrealist community he now has many museums who celebrate the pieces he has created (Salvador dali.com 2011).For example, The Dali Museum in St-Petersburg, Florida and just a couple of years ago his works could be found in the Montreal Museum of Fine