L’Egyptienne 1977

Joan Miró made this print, L’Egyptienne, and you can see how the different shapes and colors come together almost like a collage. It's like he's playing with forms, letting them find their place on the paper, kind of like how I approach a canvas. The texture in this print is so interesting. The black areas are rich and velvety, with a slight graininess that feels almost like fabric. Then you've got these pops of pure color, like the royal blue crescent, just floating there like an afterthought. Miró's drawing is like a game of hide and seek, where you're not quite sure what you're looking at, but you're having fun trying to figure it out. Miró always kept things playful, even as he was riffing on what was going on around him, and you can see that in the way he keeps up the push and pull between abstraction and representation, a conversation you also see in the work of artists like Paul Klee.