La Folle au piment rageur 1975

Joan Miró conjured up La Folle au piment rageur using lithography. Just imagine him, hovering over the stone, teasing out these madcap forms. This woman with a raging pepper feels like a cousin to his Constellations series. I wonder if he ever felt trapped by his own visual language? Did he ever just want to paint a regular still life? Maybe this wild woman IS his still life! The star shapes—so Miró—scatter across the surface, anchoring her in a cosmos of his own making. That single yellow eye, peering out, seems to dare us to laugh. It's like he's saying, "Yeah, I know it's absurd, but isn't it also kind of great?" He's in conversation with Matisse and Picasso, but talking in his own language. What a guy.