Humble Tribute to Joan Miró

Miró by Yousuf Karsh


I try to apply colors like words that shape poems,
like notes that shape music.

- Joan Miró -

April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983

Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor 
and ceramicist born in Barcelona. 

Prisoner Of Conscience - 1977
for Amnesty International

Hand Catching a Bird - 1968

Fundació Joan Miró

Joan Miró: A life in paintings
© The Observer » published March 20, 2011

Joan Miró: An artist "in the service of mankind"
© World Socialist Web Site

Miró - The Hope of a Condemned Man
© Wikipedia

Art critic Adrian Searle about Joan Miró's The Hope of a 
Condemned Man, inspired by the execution of the Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich in 1974.