Joan Miro’s was born in Spain and creates abstract surrealism art reminiscent of Picasso. Joan Miro unlike Lucio Fontana distanced himself from the horror of the holocaust and the fascist movement. He stood along side other intellectuals and created artworks that stood for his beliefs. He often collaborated art and literature as two platforms to act as one he is sometimes said to have been “creating artwork for mankind”. His artwork is loud, and vibrant and innocent. His work varied as it was very experimental at times but overall it had a long thought process and a lot of effort for execution as it was important and aiming to achieve specific qualities.  

I believe Joan Miro had a larger impact on the art world because he was recognized as an artist and activist. However for myself personally I was very struck by Luicio Fontana’s Spatial concepts as they explored a whole new aspect to what space means on 2D art. 
Spatial Concept, Expectations
Lucio Fontana 

1959

Oil on canvas

35 3/4 × 35 3/4 in. (90.8 × 90.8 cm)

Joan Miro 

Fontana was commonly named the creator of Spatialism. Spatialism is a concept created to create and understand  how color, sound, movement, and time interact and stand alone in art. In his earlier works he dabbled in sculpture to study the human form and grasp art in a more clear perspective. Reacting to harder times in the world of war and poverty he created artworks utilizing tools to cut and take away from canvas’ to demonstrate this idea of Spatialism. Fontana’s “Expectations” perfectly encompasses his theory of Spatialism. On a square frame canvas he plays with a saturated orange color with a slash in the middle. The slash is deceptive to the eye because it appears to be painted on, although this was a common technique used by the artist. His works are of high value and pop-culturally known.

Joan Miro was a surrealist painter who poetically tackled real world concepts. Surrealism is an Avant Garde movement formulated through the juxtaposition of images. He played with contrasting colors and the art of line work. Miro’s “The Birth of The World” is one of his most famous paintings. Utilizing basic shapes he constructs this idea of the world at creation. In a very surrealist nature, I interrupt this piece as a form of atoms, looking through a microscope to understand the life broken down. 

The labor of these artist’s works are very different. Joan Miro’s style is very expressive and unorthodox at times. Lucio Fontana basically destroys his artworks with knives. As a realist painter, I do not appreciate Joan Miro’s style because of his lack of depth in his paintings. I appreciate Lucio’s symbolism and history behind his works/reasonings. I think Lucio’s work has more impact on the world because of his art movement he composed. Spatialism is in all aspects of art and it should be understood and tackled when creating. 

 What’s comparing to Joan Miro and Lucio Fontana, they’re both painters and fine art sculptors.  But for Fontana is more in to spatialism style and Miro is in to surrealism style.

My favorite piece I like from Joan Miro, is the Dutch Interior (I), because I love the colors of the surrealism style.  I think after when Miro visited from Amsterdam or Netherlands, Miro was inspired by the Dutch old classic painting. The Lute Player, Hendrick Martensy Sorgh.  To Miro, he created this painting in to his style of surrealism.  For Lucio Fontana piece, the Spatial Concept, it’s more symbolic to the postwar era.  The hole on the painting are like connection or a passages between the art and the viewer.  The labor of his work, it would take a lot of time to make his own frame and stretch the canvas and have the right tools the punch in the holes.  For Miro it takes time to sketch out the ideas in different shapes and more of a spectacle piece.  To Fontana, it would take him very frustrated to full in the hole in the spectacle piece.  Fontana is more progressive, because experienced beyond the traditionally painting. 
The pricing of Fontanas pieces is worth $20,000 to $8,000,000.  And for Miros pieces they're worth $3,000 to $20,000. Which means Fontana is worth more then Miro.
 

Lucio Fontana art was more expensive than Joan Miro. Lucio Fontana is more in to spatialism style and Miro is in to surrealism style. Lucio Fontana is much more minimalistic and does not use color. When he does use color, its only 1 bold color for the entire painting. There is very little going on in his paintings. They are very unique, I have never seen anything like it but it does lead me to have a lot of questions I wish to ask the artist. Joan Miro seems to me more creative. Everything he does is big, colorful, bright, and looks a bit childish which I like a lot. He uses a lot of random shapes, mostly curvy ones but Lucio Fontana uses straight lines. I feel like there is a lot to say about Joan Miro’s art but apparently Lucio Fontana is more popular. I find it hard to think both artist lived in the same times because their styles are complete opposite. I can see how Lucio Fontana work had a bigger impact on the art world because it’s so new. It’s extremely original and might have inspired others to do something as unique. By causing confusion, I feel like Lucio Fontana can trick people in thinking his art has deeper meaning and should be worth more. I still think Joan Miro is not credited enough, because his work to me looks much more complicated and harder to do. That doesn’t mean its better, but all these colors and shapes are a different kind of abstract. His art brings me back to my childhood, its like its telling me a story I already know but have actually never heard. That sounds crazy but his art brings so many more thoughts to my brain and inspiration than a couple lines in a canvas. Colors are known to inspire, complicated shapes mean different things to different people and so I feel smarted after looking at “Danseuses acrobates” rather than “Concetto spaziale, Attesa” .