Joan Miró Biography and Works: A Detailed Gallery of His Greatest Creations

Lines and colors, blacks and whites in front of each other or to the side or below and above. But nothing is by chance in the surrealism of Catalan Joan Miró.

He has a work distinct from all other surrealists, in his forms and colors of return to childhood.

He uses various symbols and signs, such as stars, animals, plants, which constitute a kind of strange passage from the world of dreams and imagination.

Early Artistic Productions:

This portrait was painted when Miró was only 24 years old.

He had already experimented with Cubism and Fauvism, but had not yet defined his style.

It is part of one of his early artistic productions, a period in which he received influence from the post-impressionists Van Gogh and Cézanne.

Horse, Pipe, and Red Flower we see the influence by contact with the Dadaists.

The Wine Bottle reflects the importance of the surrealists placed on the subconscious and offers an idea of the potential application for the art of automatic techniques of the group.

Miró was an artist who was not easy to photograph while working during his creative process.

The majority of the photographs we know of him are by Joaquim Gomis (1902-1991), a Catalan photographer and also a great friend of the artist.

The three large-format paintings are part of a series of triptychs that he painted at the beginning of the 60s in his new studio in Mallorca.

In 1961, after three trips to the United States, Miró began to purify even more the deepening of his previous discoveries.

Blue I, II, III reflects, above all, the supreme confidence that the artist achieved in composing and coloring his paintings.

The last years of Miró's artistic career were characterized by an abundant use of black and a loose way of applying paint to the canvas, resulting in much dripping and splashing.

The immediacy of his best paintings remains unmatched.

At the end of his life, Miró reduced the elements of his artistic language to points, lines, some symbols, and reduced the color, using mainly white and black.