Untitled [plate LXV] 1958

Joan Miró made this print, called Untitled, with lithography. I can imagine the artist in the print shop, surrounded by stones, inks, tools… This feels like a playful investigation of space and form, full of freedom and childlike joy. There’s that big blue lozenge, kind of looming, and then a bunch of starbursts in red and yellow. Plus, a little green dot for good measure! These shapes feel so casual and spontaneous, like they just popped up on the page of their own accord. Each shape has its own little personality: the blue feels like a heavy, solid object, the red one is like a starfish maybe, while the yellow one is lighter and more fleeting. Miró is talking to us in the language of forms. Artists have always been in conversation with each other, across generations and geographies. In the studio we are always trying to figure something out, and in the end it is the viewer that brings the painting to life!