Joan Miró (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Miró was drawn towards a artistic community that was gathering around Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris. There, under a influence of Surrealist poets and writers, he developed his unique style: organic forms and planate picture planes drawn using the sharply line. Typically thought of as a Surrealist becautilize of his interest inside automatism & a use of intimate symbols (e.g., ovoids by using wavy lines emanating from either it), Miró’s style was influenced by Surrealism & Dada, though these are super stiff to say to simply what extent or even within exactly what ways a latter wear his style, eventually Miró rejected membership to any artistic movement in the interwar European years. This heavy individualistic streak benefited Miró & accommodated his individualism. By non becoming an official member of the Surrealists, Miró was loose to experiment by owning any artistic style that he wished forgoing compromising his position inside the class action & existence accused of non existence a “true� Surrealist. Additionally, he was loose to concentrate in his art & pursue his have interests patch a art globe, each inside & between groups, politicked & jockeyed for prominence. Miró’s artistic autonomy, at least autonomous around this he was non compulsory to attach to any 1 particular style, is reflected in his function & his willingness to act by using many mediums.

Around 1926, he collaborated with Max Ernst on designs for Sergei Diaghilev. Sustaining Miró's support, Ernst pioneered a system of "grattage," in which he troweled pigment from either his canvases.

Miró married Pilar Juncosa in Palma de Mallorca on October 12, 1929, and in July 17, 1931 the couple experienced the daughter, Dolores.

Shuzo Takiguchi published the number 1 monograph inside Miró in 1940.

Joan Miró won a 1954 Venice Biennale printmaking prize, and inside 1980 he received the Gold Medal of Art from either King Juan Carlos of Spain. Inside 1959, Andre Breton asked Miro to represent Spaaround in, A Court to Surrealism, among a works of Salvador Dali, Enrique Tabara, and Eugenio Granell.

Withinside his final decades Miró accelerated his function in different media producing hundreds of ceramics, including a Wall of the Moon & Wall of the Sun at a UNESCO building in Paris. He too processed irregular window paintings (in glass) for an exhibit.

In a survive years of his life Miró wrote his virtually all radical & least known ideas, looking for the possibilities of gas sculpture and four dimensional painting.

Miró died within Majorca, Spain, and was interred in the Montjuïc cemetery in Barcelona.

Surrealism founder André Breton described him as "the most Surrealist of us all," though Miró never formally expressed allegiance to the Surrealist movement. Miró yet, confessed to creating one of his best known works, "Harlequin's Carnival" when hallucinating due to deficiency of food. Breton was known for his affinity to automatism, & promoted applying starvation, want of sleep, and doses for getting hallucinogenic states contributing to produce art that reveal a subconscious mind. Within an locate using biographer Walter Erben, Miró expressed his dislike for art critics, locution, they "are more concerned with being philosophers than anything else. They form a preconceived opinion, then they look at the work of art. Painting merely serves as a cloak in which to wrap their emaciated philosophical systems.� This quotation reveals the high priority Miró placed on artistic technique and his disregard for those who use art as a cover for larger ideological concerns. These concerns, more often than not, were usually aimed at placing the bearer of the ideology in a more prominent, commercially and critically, position. Miró preferred, if anything, to just paint, however passé or naïve that may have been at the time.

His work has been interpreted as Surrealism fascination in the subconsious mind, an interest in recreating the child-like, and Catalan and Spanish pride. In numerous writing and interviews dating from the 1930s forward, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods and his desire to abandon them (in his words "execution" and "assassinate" them) in favor of more contemporary means of expression. Today, his paintings sell between US$250,000 and US$8 million. Many of his pieces are exhibited in the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona.