Miro

Joan Miro (1893-1983) pronounced hoan mro.

"People and Dog in Sun"

From Catalonia, Spain. Began studing art at age 14 at School of art in Barcelona Spain. At age 18 began to work alone. Went to Paris. Influenced by Picasso. By 1925 became a memer of Surrealist group. He worked on sets for romeo & Juliet productions, designs, tapestries, rugs, made ceramics & sculptures in stone and wood. Uses brilliant color, curvilinear shapes...

Miro worked continuously. In 1968 alone, he produced 60 paintings, 28 graphic prints and 30 pieces of sculpture - mainly cast in bronze. We are accustomed to seeing artworks with titles but Miro didn't like putting titles to his creations. To get around this problem, he often wrote lines of poetry in place of titles to help views get a feeling for what the artwork was about. On the other hand he gave names to sets of artworks that were done about the same time, such as "constellations.