With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan Joan Miró (1893–1983) was a giant polymath of modern art, creating masterpieces in painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, while embracing ideologies such as Fauvism, Surrealism, Dada, Magical Realism, Cubism, and abstraction. Throughout his rich body of work, Miró constantly evolved, seeking to avoid categorization and the approval of "urban" art critics, as well as the pursuit of his own dreamlike worlds. Coming to public attention in the early 1920s, he initially experimented with Fauvism and Cubism before developing a distinctive style of symbols and glyphs, organized into enigmatic visual narratives, with frequent references to the life of Catalonia. As his career progressed, Miró turned towards Surrealism and, though never fully identified with the movement, emerged as one of its most recognizable representatives, using techniques such as automatic painting, Lyrical Abstraction, and Color Field painting. In later years, he expanded into more media, working with ceramics, textiles, and proposing gas sculptures. Through his vivid colors, dreamlike fantasies, and enigmatic symbols, this book gathers the many aspects of Miró's colorful work to introduce his impressive career, his interaction with important modernist movements, and how he was transformed into a modernism legend.