Juan Miró

Joan Miró (Catalan: Joan Miró i Ferrà [ʒuˈan miˈɾoj fəˈra], April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, ceramicist, and printmaker, and a representative figure of Surrealism. Miró, Picasso and Dali are among the three major postmodern artists in Spain. The Miró Museum of Fine Arts in Montjuïc, Barcelona, ​​Miro's hometown, houses Miró's works. In 1975, Barcelona also established the Fundació Joan Miró, which specializes in collecting his works. In 1981, the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation (Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró) was established in Parma, the city where he lived for a long time. Miró won international acclaim for his unique artistic style. His works are generally considered to belong to the category of Surrealism, but his style is highly individual, sometimes showing Fauvist and Expressionist tendencies. He is particularly concerned with the unconscious or subconscious world, and this artistic interest is most evident in his representation of the quality of childlike innocence. At the same time, there is a strong sense of Catalan pride in his unclassifiable works. In numerous interviews since the 1930s, Miró had been an outspoken critic of traditional painting methods as a tool to prop up bourgeois society, and claimed to "kill painting" to break the established visual rules of painting. Since childhood, Miró has been very passionate about natural scenery, especially the place where he grew up. Painting seems to be a routine job for him, who is quiet and sensitive. His father was very interested in astronomy, and this interest also influenced Miró to some extent. At the same time, he also has a keen interest in art. He likes to draw women, birds, the sun, stars, etc., and uses his own symbols and color blocks to form his own unique personal style.