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

—  Joan Miró

from: Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews, M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987
1940 - 1960

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Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist 1893–1983

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