Joana Miróa is famous for her playful and vividly colored paintings

Palma de Mallorca (Spain) - His playful, distinctive, and vividly colored paintings enchanted people especially with their kindness and originality. One of the most famous Spanish painters, Joan Miró, reportedly "the most surrealist of all surrealists," passed away 30 years ago, on December 25, 1983.
    Painter, graphic artist, and sculptor Joan Miró was born on April 20, 1893, in Catalan Barcelona to a family of goldsmiths. He began painting under the influence of Vincent van Gogh's works, soon he was lured to Paris, where he became acquainted with Picasso and quickly moved there. Intellectuals, poets, and artists from the surrealist circle gathered in his studio. The silent Catalan painter with a passion for colors was labeled by the French poet André Breton as "the most surrealist of all surrealists."
    From 1922 to 1923, Miró painted canvases full of childlike naive charm. Later, he began to emphasize shorthand hieroglyphic drawing with a color combination of red, black, blue, and green. He also created sculptures, tapestries, ceramic reliefs, collages, and plastic works.
    In 1929, he married Pilar Juncos in Palma de Mallorca. When he had to leave France in 1940, he lived in his native Catalonia. After the war, he spent a short time in the USA, and after returning to Europe, he worked alternately in Paris and Barcelona. In the mid-1950s, he permanently moved to Mallorca, where he created monumental canvases, ceramics, and sculptures until his death.

Sculpture "4 ailes" (1972) in front of Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona