JOAN MIRÓ BY JOIDART

Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983)

Painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist, he is considered one of the greatest representatives of Surrealism despite not feeling himself part of any movement. The beginnings of his work have Fauvist, Cubist or Expressionist influences but from his stay in Paris, Miró expresses his desire to "murder and kill" the traditional methods of painting and enters a period in which his work becomes more dreamlike and abstract. His will is to move towards a more contemporary form of expression that will lead him later, with his interest in Japanese spirituality, to a style close to American abstract Expressionism.

Some of the symbolic elements that often appear in his works are birds, women, stars and his primary colors red and blue. Some of his main works, La Masia (1921), The Harlequin Carnival (1924-1925), Constellations (1940-1941) and Character in front of the Sun (1968).