Built in homage to one of Barcelona's favorite native sons, Parc de Joan Miró is a tribute to the surrealist imagination of this twentieth century painter and sculptor. The park's centerpiece is a large colorful sculpture known as Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird). The starkly modern statue stands about 22 m (70 ft) tall and sits on a simple island in the middle of a small pool. As is common in Miró's works, the sculpture is covered with glazed ceramic tiles in bright, basic colors of yellow, red, and blue. The sculpture was complete in 1982, just a year before Miró's death at age ninety.