1. Introducing : Joan Miro
This is a painting that Joan Miro did
of himself. What’s the art word that
describes a painting of yourself?

2. Some facts about Joan Miro
• Joan Miro was a Spanish painter who loved to use bright colors and dark lines in his playful
paintings. He was born in Barcelona Spain in 1893.
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• Miro lived to be 90 years old and he died on December 25th, 1983.
• Joan Miro was friends with Picasso.
• (Here is Picasso’s self-portrait) --------------------
• Miro was called a surrealist painter. Surrealism is a very interesting style of painting. It involves
painting about things that can appear in dreams, fantasy stories or maybe even on television. If you
are painting a piece of artwork in the style of surrealism, you would have to use colors according to
the mood of your piece, not colors found in real life. For example, if you were painting a gloomy,
scary or sad sort of picture, you could use colors like dark blue, black and sometimes even purple
depending on what the picture is supposed to represent
• Joan Miró’s life philosophy was, “you must always plant your feet firmly on the ground if you want
to jump into the air. The fact that I come down to Earth from time to time makes it possible to jump
all the higher.”

3. Joan Miro sometimes titled his paintings as if they were telling a story. This
one is called “Nightingale’s Song at Midnight and the Morning Rain.”

4. This one is called “Woman in front of the Sun.”

5. “Dog Barking at the Moon”

6. “The Bull Fight”

7. This one is called: The Lark’s Wing Encircled with Golden Blue, Rejoins the Heart of the
Poppy Sleeping on a Diamond Studded Meadow. Wow, that’s a mouthful! Do you see
a Lark’s wing? (A lark is a type of bird). Do you see a diamond studded meadow? Show
me!

8. Here is a painting by Miro called The Garden . The link below will take us to a youtube
video where can see The Garden animated by another artist. When Miro was younger
he didn’t know what youtube was. There was no youtube when Miro was alive and
the Internet was just getting started.
http://youtu.be/yDWPOkrJ0B8

9. Some of Miro’s paintings were inspired by the night sky. What do we know
about the night sky? Hmm?

10. The Star

11. These painting are series called Constellations.

14. Does this painting look like it’s in the surreal style to you? Why?
If you were going to paint in a surreal style, what would you name your
painting? Would you paint it first and then think of a name or the
other way around?

15. What would you name this Miro
painting?