Joan Miro

Joan Miro

Joan Miro I Ferra was born in 20^th April 1893 and grew up in Barri Gotic near Barcelona, in Spain, and died at the age of 90 in 25^th December 1983. He studied in the school of Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Llotja, and alson studied at Escuela de Arte de Francesco Galí, Sant Lluc , de Circulo Artístico from 1907 till 1913. He was in the Surrealism movment and also in the Dada movement. He is known best for sculpture, ceramics, painting, mural and illustrations, and he was also awarded the Venice Biennale Grand Prize for Graphic Work in 1954, Guggenheim International Award 1958, and the Gold Medal of Fine Arts, Spain in 1980.

Joan Miro’s illustrated work 

This is the illustration he made for the Cavall Fort. Cavall Fort is a magazine that comes out every two weeks for teenagers and children in Catalan.

In this illustration Joan Miro in my opinion sent a big massage to children and teenagers that one has to express himself freely like Joan Miro did here, he forgot the rules of the traditional artists. The fact that Joan Miro used basic colors and basic shapes which didn’t mess up the colors together it attracts more children’s attention and lead children to experiment with colors and shapes. I like in which way he left the shapes separate and spaced from each other, at first I thought it was messy and random but looking closely the kept it very neat and easy to read the name of the magazine.

I like the way that Joan Miro keeps the colors of the image very simple and although some people think that Miro’s painting a just simple and colorful after every picture there’s a story. Joan Miro said that ‘Less is more’ and that’s a good approach one must take. Joan Miro uses a lot of basic shapes but also uses strange forms of faces. He uses only flat colors and most of the colors are the primary colors. Miro uses many figures in his illustrations that seem like childrens imagination, he makes it very joyful and every one can understand it from children to adults.

"The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, and empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me." Joan Miró. http://misskatyjonesillustration.blogspot.com/2011/05/joan-miro.html

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