Ok OK I admit. If I had not have seen the link on google for Miro I would not have knownthat today would have been his birthday had he not have died in 1983.
You either love his work or hate it as is the case with so much surrealist art. I like a lot of it and love his museam in Barcelona but mrs Danio isn't that struck with him I am sure many of you will agree with her. Here is a bit about the man himself...
Catalan painter, whose works, with their subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy, are some of the most original of the 20th century.Miró was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona and studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the Academia Galí. His work before 1920 shows wide-ranging influences, including the bright colors of the Fauves, the broken forms of cubism, and the powerful, flat two-dimensionality of Catalan folk art and Romanesque church frescoes of his native Land. He moved to Paris in 1920, where, under the influence of surrealist poets and writers, he evolved his mature style. Miró drew on memory, fantasy, and the irrational to create works of art that are visual analogues of surrealist poetry. The forms of his paintings are organized against flat neutral backgrounds and are painted in a limited range of bright colors, especially blue, red, yellow, green, and black. Amorphous amoebic shapes alternate with sharply drawn lines, spots, and curlicues, all positioned on the canvas with seeming nonchalance. Miró later produced highly generalized, ethereal works in which his organic forms and figures are reduced to abstract spots, lines, and bursts of colors.Miró also experimented in a wide array of other media, devoting himself to etchings and lithographs for several years in the 1950s and also working in watercolor, pastel, collage, and paint on copper and masonite. Miró died in on December 25, 1983. Not a very happy Christmas there was it!!! Ho Hum.
2 Examples of his work above. I like the singing fish... see if you can guess which one it is :-D