"A Touch of Whimsy" with Joan Miró

Miró Watercolor

Joan Miró was a Spanish artist who developed a very whimsical style back in the 1930’s. His work has been called funny, exciting, scary, imaginative, but never boring. Miró painted what was important to him, perhaps the way he would have liked things to be, not necessarily how they are in reality. Many of his paintings contain a story or scene disguised by abstract shapes and colors. Painting surrealistically gave Miró the opportunity to interpret, to think. Miró worked mostly in primary colors, abstract shapes, and in "2-dimensions" (with no shadows or depth to the form). Miró
used lines often as a way of showing flow and illusion.