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Missy Rajewski
Miró chose a stiff, textured watercolor paper for the series, and began each sheet by sanding the surface, then rubbing his freshly cleaned oil paint brushes over the paper, sometimes blending it with thinned gouache so that the two incompatible liquids created diaphanous, cloud-like pools. In these suggestive fields, he constructed his visual story, covering the sheet with hourglass shapes and a multitude of forms suggesting crescents, eyes, stars, and triangles, linked by thin black lines to evoke an imaginary celestial world. Each picture took about a month to complete, demonstrating his intense engagement with the images. Miró titled the works as if each were a poem, and the background suggests night and day, alternately, evoking imaginary atmospheres, and characters in space.
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Many of Miró's paintings of the period 1924 to 1927 have broad fields of colour animated by enigmatic signs, and sometimes even by words. Margit Rowell has shown in the catalogue of the Guggenheim Museum's Miró exhibition that his work of this period was strongly influenced by poetry. Miró is known to have steeped himself in poetry in the 1920s, and through his friendship with Masson met practically all the leading French poets of the time. Though he has always been reluctant to discuss and identify the imagery in these pictures, Margit Rowell has discovered a number of instances in which his paintings of the period can be related to works by Rimbaud, Jarry, Apollinaire, Saint-Pol-Roux, Desnos and others, including some in which there is such a close correspondence to the poetic images in a specific poem as to give the impression that he was illustrating that poem.
On the right of the picture is a breast with what seems to be a balloon beside it. Just below the nipple is a brown patch which could have been suggested by the beard and is shaped like a sheaf of corn. Above the balloon is a black dot with lines streaming from it which is possibly either a ball in flight or a balloon rising or bursting. At the top of the picture hovers what seems to be a breast-balloon.
On the other hand the white shape on the left was identified by Miró in December 1977 as a horse (information from Sir Roland Penrose), and the picture is therefore probably also related to the series of paintings of circus themes dated 1927 which is known as the Circus Horse. A combination of different themes like this would be quite in accord with his practice.