1926
Female Nude
Joan MiróSpanish, 1893 - 1983
In this painting Joan Miró translates the human body into a collection of disparate objects connected by nothing but a cross axis of dashed lines. The head is an egg. An apple and turnip (or perhaps a radish) stand in for breasts. The torso takes the form of a fish, and a leaf serves as a displaced symbol of genitals. To Miró these open-ended and often arbitrary analogies created a type of visual poetry.
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