"Deux Personnages Fantastiques" in La Défense (Paris, France) - Abstract Public Sculptures on Waymarking.com

These two fantastic giants, measuring 11 m and 12 m, seem to be playing together. This sculpture is very recognisably in Miro's style, with colours probably inspired from his native Catalonia in Spain. It was installed in the front of the Les Quatre Temps shopping mall at La Défense in 1980, three years before Miro's death.

Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20th, 1893 – December 25th, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeoise society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting...

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