Joan Miró
Miró belongs with his coloured pictures to the best-known surrealists and the most popular artists of the 20th century. Joan Miró was born on the 20th of April 1893 as a son of a goldsmith and watchmaker in Barcelona and got quite early drawing lessons.
He studied art and had his first single exhibition at the age of 24 years. Afterwards he went to Paris. He left France in 1940 and lived in Majorca, Montroig or in Barcelona. In 1956 he finally moved to Majorca where he died on the 25th of December 1983 at the age of 90 years.
The Sun, mostly shown as a red ball, is found in numerous of his works. Some pictures carry the sun also in the title:
The Flight of the Dragonfly in front of the Sun
The Red Sun
Miró also sketched a logo for the football world championship in 1982. Presently in modified form it serves the Spanish tourist information office as a recognition sign. It shows the sun, a star and the stroke „ESPAÑA“.
What do you recognise in Miró’s pictures ? Leave your imagination free run: the Sun, war mth, heat, little man with big nose and eye, rays, circles, the dancing sun, man with yellow head.
Which colours and forms did Miró use? circles, lines and colour surfaces in black, yellow, blue, red, green...
Miró did not work after the chance principle, although hiscompositions look asunintentionally and asjoined by chance. He checked his approach and made preliminary studies of his paintings.