Joan Miró

Miró floats playful biomorphic shapes, squiggles, stars, and dots on flat coloured grounds, using primary colours and black. Childlike, poetic, and dreamlike — abstraction with a sense of fun.

Joan Miró (1893–1983) was a painter from Spain, associated with Surrealism.

A 20th-century movement of dream logic and the unconscious — impossible, uncanny imagery rendered vividly. Surrealism →