Joan Miro (1893-1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist. Miro developed his own unique and very distinctive style, comprised of organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp line. Visual symbolic language, striking primary colours and form transformations that stir each viewer differently are some of the characteristics of Miro’s work. Miro expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an “assassination of painting” in favour of reform. He was one the first artists to adopt automatic drawing as a method of countering established techniques in painting, and was a pioneer of the Surrealist movement.