Joan Miró – universal genius with a poetic palette

In a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (1893–1983) proved himself a universal genius of modern art. He left behind masterpieces in painting, sculpture, art book printing, tapestry, and pottery, working in styles as diverse as Fauvism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Magic Realism, Cubism, and abstract art.

Images of bold color from a repertoire of recurring, concise, magical symbols and signs: Miró found his characteristic style, with which his name is largely associated today, in Paris in the 1920s. Here he moved within a network of avant-garde painters and writers, including Picasso, Max Ernst, Tristan Tzara, Michel Leiris, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Henry Miller, Salvador Dalí and many others. They formed the elite of modernity, a laboratory of creativity.

This volume illustrates the diverse influences that found their way into Miró's art, which today is often reduced to its decorative character, and traces an incredible career that made Joan Miró a legendary figure in modern art.