La Lune verte 1972

Joan Miró made *La Lune verte*, or *The Green Moon*, with lithographic ink to make something that feels like a spontaneous moment. The artist starts off with a bang, a burst of yellow scribble, which is like a big question mark, right? But then these simple shapes enter, in black, red, and blue - little critters, totems, hieroglyphs. I can imagine Miró really focused, but somehow also playful, pushing and pulling the ink to make these forms. The green moon itself is a funny, lopsided shape, that somehow feels like the key to the whole thing. Like without it, all the other little characters would have no place to be! It’s that big curve that gives the eye a place to land, while the other gestures shoot off into space. Miró’s talking to his friends Picasso and Arp in this, but he's also speaking his own language of shape and line, just like all artists do!