Joan MiróLe chien bleu

Joan Miró was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adopted city of Palma in 1981.

Internationally acclaimed, his work has been interpreted as surrealism, but with a personal style, sometimes veering towards fauvism and expressionism. He was distinguished by his interest in the unconscious or subconscious, which is reflected in his recreation of childhood. His hard-to-categorize works also included a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews from the 1930s, Miró expressed his contempt for conventional painting methods as a means of sustaining bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of disrupting the visual elements of established painting.