The head of a Catalan peasant

The painting depicts an abstract composition with a dominant red form resembling a figure or face at the top. The lower part of the painting is decorated with wavy brown stripes that may resemble eyelashes or tentacles. Visually, the work is divided into sectors where two yellow circular forms with black centres on a blue background evoke eyes. The image has a surreal or biomorphic character and works with contrasts of colours and shapes.

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Prevailing color of this fine art print is vivid and its shape is portrait.

Joan Miró i Ferrà (1893-1983). Spanish (Catalonian) painter and sculptor. His paintings are considered surrealist. His approach attacks the traditional methodology (from the 1930s), which Miró considered bourgeois. He began making a living as an accountant, but quickly left behind the world of numbers and fully devoted himself to art. Gradually, he developed his symbolic language that he first used in the paintings The Tilled Field (1924) and Catalonia Landscape (1923). This language is used in most of his works. For example, he used the triangle shape to show the head, curves to show a moustache, and a rectangular shape to depict the trunk. As a surrealist, he often painted without a plan, with references to sexual symbols (for example, egg-like forms with penetrating wavy lines). As one of the first artists, he used auto painting. André Breton - the founder of surrealism - eventually described him as the purest surrealist of us all and he is considered an influential painter of the 20th century, who influenced mainly American expressionists (from the better known, for example Rothko Pollock or Motherwell and Calder).