Background
Joan Prats was born in 1891 to a family who sold hats.
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Joan Prats was born in 1891 to a family who sold hats.
He was trained as an artist in the Llotja School, where he first met Joan Miró, who was also training there. He was also associated with Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Josep Vicenç Foix and Joan Brossa. The association lasted from 1932 to 1936 and the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Miró formed his foundation with Prats, which eventually led to the museum / exhibit hall in Barcelona known as Fundació Joan Miró.
Prats admired Miró"s ability to make things from found objects like those in The Caress of a Bird. Prats said: "When I take a stone, it is just a stone.
When I grab a stone, it is a Miró.".