This richly illustrated volume explores the profound relationship between Joan Miró and his native Catalonia, demonstrating how its landscapes, traditions, language and cultural identity shaped every stage of the artist's creative life. The book follows Joan Miró's artistic career through the enduring influence of Catalonia on his work. Joan Perucho begins by examining Miró's childhood in Barcelona and Mont-roig del Camp before analysing how the Catalan landscape, rural architecture and Mediterranean light became recurring elements in his paintings. Separate chapters discuss the origins of Miró's distinctive symbolic language, his Surrealist period, monumental murals, sculpture, ceramics, graphic work and public commissions. Particular attention is given to the relationship between Catalan culture and Miró's poetic visual vocabulary, demonstrating how birds, stars, women, the moon and organic forms evolved into internationally recognised symbols. The volume concludes with a bibliography and index, while more than one hundred high-quality colour illustrations document the breadth of Miró's artistic production and the central role Catalonia played throughout his career. (AI-generated content description)