Born in 1893, Joan Miro grew up in the Spanish countryside near Barcelona, an area that greatly influenced his artistic style. He showed great promise from an early age and became a master of painting, ceramics, engraving, watercolors, and even painting on copper and glass. His early art was inspired by Van Gogh and Cezanne, and he exhibited for the first time in Barcelona in 1918.
His early art includes bright landscapes and still life, such as Horse, Pipe, and Red Flower, which played with perspective and depth in form. Highly detailed in his work, Miro began to turn toward Surrealism after a trip to Paris in the early 1920s. Experimenting with line, form, color, and balance, Miro created scenes with distorted, interrupted connections between the objects. His paintings The Tilled Field and Catalan Landscape (The Hunter) of 1924 are commonly considered his first Surrealist works.
His early art includes bright landscapes and still life, such as Horse, Pipe, and Red Flower, which played with perspective and depth in form. Highly detailed in his work, Miro began to turn toward Surrealism after a trip to Paris in the early 1920s. Experimenting with line, form, color, and balance, Miro created scenes with distorted, interrupted connections between the objects. His paintings The Tilled Field and Catalan Landscape (The Hunter) of 1924 are commonly considered his first Surrealist works.
