What is Joan Miró?
{{Infobox artist | name = | image = Portrait of Joan Miro, Barcelona 1935 June 13.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Joan Miró, photo by [[Carl Van Vechten]], June 1935 | birth_name = Joan Miró i Ferrà | birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|4|20|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia]], [[Restoration (Spain)|Spain]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|12|25|1893|4|20|df=y}} | death_place = [[Palma, Mallorca|Palma]], [[Majorca]], Spain | nationality = Spanish | field = [[Painting]], [[sculpture]], [[mural]] and [[Ceramics (art)|ceramics]] | training = ''Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Llotja'', and ''Escuela de Arte de Francesco Galí, Circulo Artístico de Sant Lluc'', 1907–1913 | movement = [[Surrealism]], [[Dada]], Personal, Experimental | spouse = Pilar Juncosa Iglesias (1929–1983) | works = | patrons = | awards = 1954 [[Venice Biennale]] Grand Prize for Graphic Work,<br>1958 Guggenheim International Award,<br />1980 Gold Medal of Fine Arts, Spain }} [[File:Fundació Miró P1370077.JPG|thumb|right|Sculpture at [[Fundació Joan Miró]]]] '''Joan Miró''' (20 April 1893 {{ndash}} 25 December 1983) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] [[painter]], [[sculptor]] and [[ceramic]]ist. He was born in [[Barcelona]]. He died of [[heart disease]] in [[Palma de Mallorca|Palma]], [[Majorca]]. A [[museum]] dedicated to his work, the Fundación Joan Miró, was opened in Barcelona in 1975. Joan Miró started painting when he was fourteen he attended an art school. He then started to develop his own style to draw scenes of trees and landscapes. In around the 1930s Joan started to make rapid changes to his style of painting. Influenced by [[Pablo Picasso]], Miro developed more [[surrealist]] works.<ref>{{cite news|author=Charlotte Higgins, chief arts writer |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/11/joan-miro-retrospective-reunites-triptychs |title=Guardian, April, 2011, ''Joan Miró Retrospective Reunites Triptychs |publisher=Guar