Episode 25: Joan Miró — Biomorphic Daydreams and the Acrobatics of Simplicity
Joan Miró did not paint pictures so much as he invented a personal alphabet and then taught it how to dance. Born in Barcelona in 1893 and long faithful to Catalonia’s colors and symbols, he moved between Mont-roig, Paris, and later Mallorca, building a language of signs — eyes, stars, ladders, moons — that feels childlike until it suddenly … Read more