Joan Miro
Although Miró has been associated with early Surrealism and has had an influence on Abstract Expressionists and Color Field painters, he remains one of modern art's greatest mavericks with a visual vocabulary unmistakably his own. A self-taught painter, Miró drew inspiration from a wide variety of sources, from the automatist techniques of the Surrealists to the simplified forms of folk art. As a result, Miró's work is characterized by a sense of playfulness and spontaneity,