“Joan Miro i Ferra (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundacio Joan Miro, was established in his birth city in 1975.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miro expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an “assassination of painting” in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting”. – Wikipedia

Sophie Peel admires Oiseau Solaire (Solar Bird) by Joan Miro in the Yorkshire Sculpture park gallery on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. Yorkshire Sculpture Park stages the first major UK survey of sculpture by Spanish artist Joan Miro. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Alice Wild admires Jeune fille s evandant (Girl Escaping) by Joan Miro in the Yorkshire Sculpture park gallery on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Femme Assise et enfant (Seated Woman and Child) by Joan Miro in the Yorkshire Sculpture park gallery on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Joan Miro's, grandsons, Emilio Fernandez Miro and Joan Punyet Miro pose beside Personnage (1970) in the Yorkshire Sculpture park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Joan Miro's scupture, Femme, 1970 stands in the Yorkshire Sculpture park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

A woman admires Joan Miro's sculpture, Personnage Gothique, Oiseau Eclaie (1976) stands in the Yorkshire Sculptire park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Joan Miro's sculpture, Femme (1981) stands in the Yorkshire Sculpture park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Joan Miro's sculpture, Personnage (1982) stands in the Yorkshire Sculpture park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Henry Moore's perminant work, The Open Air Bronze collection at Yorkshire Sculpture park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

General Views at Yorkshire Sculpture park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

The Family Of Man by Barbara Hepworth at Yorkshire Sculpture park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Draped seated woman by Henry Moore at Yorkshire Sculpture park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)

Molecular Man +1+1+1 by Jonathan Borofsky at Yorkshire Sculpture park on March 14, 2012 in Wakefield, England. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)