Joan Miro, n.Definitions

Joan Miro is a painter who tries to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Joan Miro is an artist who holds that a work must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Joan Miro is an artist who seizes an image the moment it has formed in his mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterwards he starts to tame it, to master it, to bring it under control and develop it.

Joan Miro is an artist who, as he paints, the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under his brush. As he works, the form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird.

Joan Miro is an artist who uses a small number of forms and colors, a very narrow range of colors like the frescoes of the tenth century.