Untitled (After Joan Miró) 1985

Sherrie Levine made this watercolour, Untitled (After Joan Miró), in response to a painting by Miró; it’s a copy, but it’s also very much her own. I can almost feel the brush dance as she worked, re-interpreting Miró's symbols - stars, circles, and wandering lines - through her own lens. The colours are soft, like a memory, with a pale yellow background that makes the black lines and the central blue form float. What was Levine thinking when she made this? Perhaps she felt a connection to Miró, a kind of artistic kinship across time. This work is not just about imitation, but about understanding and engaging with the past. It's part of a conversation between artists. Levine invites us to think about originality, influence, and the way art builds upon art. It's like she's saying, "We're all in this together, borrowing, stealing, and transforming."