About Joan Miró Escargot, Femme, Fleur, Etoile (Painting Snail, Woman, Flower, Star, 1934)
Miró's art never became fully non-objective. Rather than resorting to complete abstraction, the artist devoted his career to exploring various means by which to dismantle traditional precepts of representation. Miró's radical, inventive style was a critical contributor in the early-20th-century avant-garde journey toward increasing and then complete abstraction.