Joan MIRO

Born in Catalonia in 1893. In 1926 he entered Barcelona School of Art, and in 1919 left for Paris. In Paris, he formed relationships with Picasso and other artists, and met Andre Breton, a proponent of Surrealism. Breton saw Miro’s uninhibited style which resonated with him as true Surrealism; Miro was then invited into a group of Surrealist artists. The world seen in Miro’s works, made of familiar motifs like the moon and stars, women, and birds which are deformed into organic shapes and expressed with vivid colors, is poetic and highly valued.