Flame in space and nude woman 1932

Joan Miró made this small oil on canvas, "Flame in space and nude woman" and in it, he's using such a limited palette; primarily yellow, red, green, and black, to create this otherworldly scene. What strikes me is how flat and matte the paint is, like it’s been scrubbed into the canvas. See how the colors butt up against each other, creating hard edges, but also how the yellow and red bleed into one another. This gives the work a very graphic, almost poster-like quality. Look at the creature perched on the yellow form. Is it a bird? Some kind of alien life form? It reminds me of Paul Klee’s whimsical drawings. It’s like Miró is creating his own symbolic language, a personal vocabulary of shapes and colors. What do they mean? That’s for us to decide. Art isn’t about answers, it’s about questions.