ART Lives: Joan Miro (UK-import)
Profile of the life and work of Spanish surrealist painter, sculptor and ceramicist, Joan Miro. Inpired by the arts community in Paris during his youth, he quickly developed a unique style, heavily influenced by Surrealism and Dada, expressing itself in his use of organic form and flattened picture planes. Throughout his life, he experimented with different media, including murals, lithographs, and, in his later years, hundreds of different ceramics, including his first and only glass mosaic mural, Personnage Oiseaux (Bird Characters).