Joan Miró was a Spanish artist born in 1893 in Barcelona. Early in life he showed a strong interest in art but his father wanted him to become a jeweler. He took art lessons as a child but was forced to work in a drug warehouse as a teenager, which made him very unhappy. After becoming ill with typhus, his parents allowed him to pursue art. He studied under unconventional teachers in Barcelona and then traveled to Paris where he developed his own symbolic style using simple colors, lines, and shapes to represent objects rather than copying reality. Later in life he had his own studio in Mallorca where he continued experimenting with new materials and larger formats like tapestries and ceramics. He is