Miró, Joan, << mee ROH, hoh AHN >> (1893-1983), was a Spanish painter who developed an imaginative and extremely personal style. His highly abstract forms suggest real people and animals as well as fantastic creatures and objects. Many of Miró’s paintings contain a story or scene disguised by the apparent abstractness of the shapes and colors.
Miró developed his characteristic style during the 1920’s and early 1930’s. His mature work portrays a world of fantasy, which he pictured in brightly colored shapes and lively expressive lines. Miró also worked in other art forms, including ceramics, sculpture, and lithography, a type of printmaking.
Miró was born on April 20, 1893, in Montroig, Spain, near Barcelona. In 1919 he went to Paris, where he helped establish the Surrealism movement in the 1920’s. Miró died on Dec. 25, 1983.
