In Year 5, we have been looking at the artist Miró. Joan Miró was a Spanish Catalan artist, born in Barcelona in 1893. In 1922, Joan Miró began exploring surrealism in his paintings. He began painting in a more abstract style. This meant that the things he painted were less realistic, and might not look exactly like they do in real life. He started using strong colours, such as black, red, yellow, green and blue and painted shapes and lines in his artworks. We studied some of his works including Catalan Landscape (The Hunter), 1923-24, Pastorale, 1923-24 and Harlequin’s Carnival, 1924-25. He often included similar things in his paintings such as ears, stars, numbers, letters, trees, flags, ladders, eyes and triangles. We focused on the shapes and colours that he used and then created our own Miró inspired collages. We loved making them look unusual and enjoyed experimenting with making them 3D and we were really pleased with our end products.
