This print, Moon Dog, is by Rufino Tamayo. Look how the artist worked with gouache to bring this mythical dog to life. The color is built up in layers of brush marks. Check out the way Tamayo lets the surface texture do some of the work. You can feel the rawness of the gouache in the blue and black fur, as if the paint itself is howling at the moon. The deep reds inside the dog’s mouth have a sinister and yet playful quality. There is something childlike about the way the dog’s form is rendered, but also sophisticated in the way that Tamayo uses the negative space to define the shape of the dog. This reminds me of Joan Miro, who also had a way of making simple forms suggest complex emotions. It's like Tamayo is saying, 'let's not take ourselves too seriously,' but then also, 'let's not forget the power of our primal instincts.'