L’Etoile se lève, les oiseaux s’envolent, les personnages dansent 1954

Joan Miró animated this canvas, titled L’Etoile se lève, les oiseaux s’envolent, les personnages dansent, with buoyant shapes and colours. Three dominant figures populate a field speckled with colourful dots, evoking a celestial or dreamlike space. Miró’s approach to form here recalls Surrealist and abstract art. The shapes are simplified and playful, appearing as characters in a visual game. Notice the interplay between the biomorphic forms and geometric elements, creating a dynamic tension. The colour palette—dominated by reds, blacks, and interspersed with blues, yellows and greens—contributes to the work’s overall sense of joyful, childlike wonder. Miró destabilizes conventional representation through abstraction, embracing instead a personal iconography. His art invites viewers to engage with a visual language that exists beyond fixed meanings, celebrating a fluid, ever-changing interpretation of form and space. The artist presents not a depiction, but an invitation to dance with the signs.