Spanish/English/French text. Miro's art cannot be completely understood unless one takes into account that this is an art profoundly rooted in its native land, perpetually fertilized and sustained by the particular atmosphere which pervades those places where he spent his childhood and youth. The secret of Miro and the signs and forms he creates lie precisely, as James Johnson Sweeney puts it in the preface to this book, in the soil of his native Catalonia. All his life he has remained receptive to its most secret heartbeat, either at the moment of creativity or from the remote depths of memory.