II. Lack of interest in political matters

The Catalan struggle and Spanish Civil War greatly influenced Joan Miro's art; Miro's techniques of forceful strokes with paint and ceramics enable Miro to express his feelings and depict the Catalan people's struggle through art.

Surrealism in the 1920s was defined as a fantastic arrangement of materials that influenced Miro, due to the fact that he was one of the most original and sympathetic artists during the S

V. Miro, Joan. Still Life with Old Shoe. The Museum of Modern Art,

"It was necessary to fight so that Catalan, our language might be recognized as a cultural language" ("Miro"). In 1910 Miro's parents bought a masia which is a sort of traditional farmstead of Catalonia, where the family has its roots on the paternal side. Miro described the masia in his painting The Farm of 1921-1922 (Figure1). Clement Greenburg a close friend of Miro who is also a critic, said that Miro's art is based on ideas "of painting as an irrevocable two dimensional medium" (Munro 289).

Miro also enjoyed painting his work to connect like stars to kind of form constellations. He did this by letting his shapes overlap, and coloring only the flat surfaced areas. Some people tried to relate his art toward taboo due to his colors representing the different areas of Spain. Yet in 1977, Miro was asked to design the official poster for Catalonia (Figure 5). Miro lived to see the success of that campaign and thought it to be among the greatest rewards of his life (Higdon 5). Miro died in Palma, Majorca, Spain December 25, 1983.

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