Untitled [plate XLVI] 1958

This is an untitled print by Joan Miró, and it's got this playful simplicity that just grabs you. The colors are bold and primary, like a kid’s building blocks, and the forms are so reduced, so elemental. It's all about the joy of making. You can almost feel Miró experimenting with the process of lithography, seeing how much he can get away with, how few lines he can use to suggest a figure, a feeling. Look at that red circle, floating there, next to the figure. It's not quite touching, not quite separate. It's a relationship, a conversation between shapes and colors. Miró’s work always reminds me of Klee. Both of them had this knack for turning the mundane into the magical, for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. They remind us that art isn't about answers, it’s about asking questions.