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Would Joan Mir\u00f3 make a good Wikipedian? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

In recent years, I have produced dozens of articles about Joan Mir\u00f3’s work in several languages for Viquip\u00e8dia, the Catalan version of Wikipedia. I have gone through books, articles, videos, and as much of the available reference material as possible to document the famous Catalan painter. Why do I do it? I don\u2019t have one single answer: to share my passion, to keep the Catalan language alive on the Internet, to learn while I spread the word about the things I like.<\/p>\n

Editing Wikipedia is a combination of putting together a huge puzzle where all the pieces are connected and being a homespun detective of sorts, rifling through books, websites and periodical archives in a quest to find the source that will validate something you know you read, but can’t remember where. You contribute with the satisfaction that your pastime will be useful to thousands of people, and with the assurance that at any moment someone else can improve or challenge what you have written. The articles don’t belong to ‘no one’: everyone can contribute to them.<\/p>\n

Joan Mir\u00f3 wanted art to become a part of people’s everyday lives, and with Wikipedia, we want the sum total of human knowledge to reach everyone, openly, free of charge, and in each person’s language. Mir\u00f3 didn’t discuss painting, because he said he wasn’t interested in it. To him, painting was a vehicle of expression for the spirit, which is the only thing of interest.[1]<\/sup><\/a> As I see it, Wikipedia – as an encyclopaedia – is also just a tool, a tool that allows me to share information with the greatest possible number of people, focusing on the ultimate goal of collaborating to shape the critical spirit of mature citizens who question the world they live in. Wikipedia isn’t reliable? Nothing is. That happens to be what I like best about it. It\u2019s like the scientific method, questioning everything by default. We Wikipedians wants people to read, compare, research, and question everything. Without exception.<\/p>\n

Would Joan Mir\u00f3 have been a good Wikipedian? I think so. And a good one, too. Let me tell you why.<\/p>\n

Mir\u00f3 collaborated<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Throughout his career, Mir\u00f3 collaborated with a variety of artists. His ceramic murals are famous – the ones in which he was influenced by and adapted to the Artigas family’s legendary kilns in Gallifa. This ongoing evolution, this feeling of comfort in experimental, beta, lifelong learning settings where imperfection is a given, is fairly similar to the Wiki method and, by extension, that of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

Mir\u00f3 documented<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One of the Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3\u2019s treasures is its archive of the artist’s thousands of preliminary sketches. Mir\u00f3 was methodical, and claimed that everything he did was based on reality. In Wikipedia, you always have to base your information on a source. The project’s reliability depends on its bibliographic citations. As with Mir\u00f3, the ladder of escape must be firmly rooted in the ground.<\/p>\n

Mir\u00f3 educated<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When Mir\u00f3 conceived his foundation, at a time when Barcelona was lacking in venues for contemporary art, he chose to reject the classical notion of a museum as a mere container for works of art. Jointly with Josep Llu\u00eds Sert, he conceived a contemporary art research centre that would feature his own works along with those of other artists, both upcoming and established, and that would provide a place to hold all sorts of cultural and experimental events. Mir\u00f3 did not want a closed, static museum; he wanted a space where things happened, where his works could be hung and stored away, a space for ongoing change where both canonical and utterly experimental knowledge could be shared by all.<\/p>\n

Mir\u00f3, the Wikipedian<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mir\u00f3 was not oblivious to his day and age. Llu\u00eds Permanyer said that Joan Mir\u00f3 ‘is an honest, unassuming, generous man, true to himself, a citizen who is committed to freedom and to his country.’ This urge to work methodically without closing the door to experimentation, this mixture of passionate commitment and contemplative formality that is quintessential to Mir\u00f3, makes the artist a Wikipedian avant la lettre<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/sup><\/a> Interview in La Gaceta Literaria<\/em>, 1 July, 1928.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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