Joan miró. femme et oiseaux (woman and birds), 1940, #8 from miró’s constellations series. oil wash and gouache on paper. 38 x 46 cm (14.9 x 18.1 in). credit: tristan fewings via getty imagesjoan miró: painter, print-maker, collage artist, and sculptor joan miró (1893–1983) created brightly colored, biomorphic shapes that seemed to bubble up from the imagination. miró used doodling and automatic drawing to spark his creativity, but his works were carefully composed. he exhibited with the surrealist group and many of his works show the influence of: