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Spanish artist known for his use of color in his paintings.
Joaquin Mir Trinxet (Catalan: Joaquim Mir i Trinxet) (Barcelona 6 January – ) was a Catalan Spanish artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known by the color of his paintings.
They helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme.
Barcelona and Paris
Landscape (around ). × mm. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
Mir Trinxet was born in Barcelona to a well-off Catalan family.
Mir was a painter from the Colla del Safrà (Saffron Gang), so called because of their abundant use of yellow and orange to paint barren landscapes under an.His father was representative of foreign firms, some of them from Nuremberg [1] Mir studied at the Llotja before joining the Colla del Safrà group with Canals, Nonell, and Pichot. Thanks to an agreement with,[2] he was able to work as a painter[3] and in Mir went to Mallorca with Santiago Rusiñol, where he met the mystic Belgian painter William Degouve de Nuncques, whose work would influence his own.[4] Working in isolated circumstances in Mallorca, Mir painted odd landscapes in which forms and chromatic colors merged.
In his first exhibition