The most popular word used to describe Joan Miro's art is playful. Miro was a popular artist during the first half of the 1900s. But he never confined his work to just one art movement. Here's what you need to know to appreciate art by Joan Miro.
Instructions
1. Look for Miro's use of bright, bold colors. Miro began his art career in the early 1900s. During this time, he followed the Les Fauves movement. This movement used color and simple lines. Even as Miro's art continued to develop, his use of thick lines and bright color continued throughout his career.
2. See how Miro used flat shapes in his art. Miro was a native of Barcelona, Spain. Here, the culture is called Catalan, instead of Spanish. Miro was always proud of his Catalan culture, and he liked the 2-dimensional shapes in their folk art so much, that his art had used the same flat shapes.
3. Find elements of geometric shapes in Miro's art. In the mid-1920s, Miro met Pablo Picasso in Paris. Picasso's new movement, cubism, inspired Miro. Many of his portraits have cubism-like figures.
4. Identify paintings that resemble dreamlike, unconscious, Surrealist work. Just after meeting Picasso, Miro fell in with people in the Surrealist movement. Although he befriended and studied with them, he did not want to be limited by a movement. So he never officially joined any movement, and his work continued to take on characteristics he picked up from different movements.
5. Try to find elements of all of these things in one Miro painting. From 1930 on, Miro remained unaffiliated with any one movement. His art reflected a compilation of what he liked most from all the other movements he experimented with during his lifetime.
