Joan Miró, a Catalan-Spanish artist, was a prominent figure in 20th-century art, known for his distinctive style that blended abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. He was a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, and printmaker, and his work is characterized by whimsical, dreamlike imagery and a unique...
An indefatigable experimenter who participated in the Cubist, Dadaist and Surrealist art movements, Man Ray (1890-1976) created a new photographic art that emphasized chance effects and juxtapositions. Ray used solarization, grain enlargement and cameraless prints (called "Rayographs") -- made by...