Refusing to be pigeonholed into one movement, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is
remembered as one of the most influential Spanish artists of the 20th century.
Miró experimented with lithographs at the most mature stage of his career.
By the 1940s, Miró had fostered a distinctive style with dark outlines, organic
shapes and bold colors that evoked a sense of sophistication and innocence.

Refusing to be pigeonholed into one movement, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is remembered as one of the most influential Spanish artists of the 20th century. Miró experimented with lithographs at the most mature stage of his career. By the 1940s, Miró had fostered a distinctive style with dark outlines, organic shapes and bold colors that evoked a sense of sophistication and innocence. This style also used automatism (a Surrealist concept of drawing images from the subconscious) in rendering subjects. Miró would often lie awake in bed at night; sometimes not having eaten all day, and let images come to him in this dark and dreamlike state. In the morning, he would quickly jot them down.