Joan Claret

(Barcelona, 1929-2014)

Author's artworks
20th-21st Century, Spanish
 
An architect and painter, Claret’s style shifted towards
with lyrical nuances, which he materialised in a subtle play of curves and straight rhythms in planes and bands with nuanced tones. Claret was influenced particularly by Paul Klee (1879-1940), Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944).
 
In 1959, he founded the Cero-Figura group together with Hernández Pijuan (1931-2005), Subirachs (1927-2014), Tharrats (1918-2001), Vila Casas (1920-2007) and the art critic Santos Torroella, and in 1962 he won the Joan Miró Drawing Prize.
 
Besides Spain, his work has been exhibited in Japan, United Kingdom, United States, France and Germany.