Untitled [plate XXII] 1958

Joan Miró made this print with colour lithography, and it's like he's dancing with the process. It’s all about the joy of mark-making. Look at that long, blue stroke, almost like a beanstalk. Notice how it's not a solid, uniform colour, but textured, revealing the grain of the lithographic stone. It's got these little white circles punctuating the blue, like stars in a strange constellation. Then there’s the green brush stroke sitting perpendicular, creating a cross-roads. It is as if the colours are colliding in a playful explosion of visual expression. It feels so intuitive, as if Miró just let his hand and the materials lead the way. Miró always reminds me of Paul Klee, they both share that childlike wonder and ability to make the simplest marks feel profound. It's like a visual poem, open to endless interpretations.