Portrait of E.C. Ricart 1917

Joan Miró made this portrait of E.C. Ricart using oil on canvas, and what strikes me is how he's taken a traditional subject and made it completely his own. Look at that palette floating up in the corner, it’s almost daring you to think about color in a new way. I wonder what Miró was thinking as he painted those lines of color across Ricart's shirt. The colors are almost vibrating! You can imagine him stepping back, squinting, and then adding another line, another shade. It's like he’s building a new kind of reality, layer by layer. And those colors, they aren’t just decorative. They’re adding to the feeling, the mood. It’s like he’s saying, "Let's not just see the person, let's feel them, too." I think painters are always talking to each other across time and space, and Miró is definitely inviting us into the conversation. What do you think?