Tête d’Homme de Objets (Head of Man and Object)
Miró’s paintings often started when something set off his imagination. He said, “I begin my paintings because something jolts me away from reality. This shock can be caused by a little thread that comes loose from the canvas, a drop of water that falls, the fingerprint my thumb leaves on the shiny surface of this table.” From there he painted until the work began to “assert itself.” He explained, “A form gives me an idea, this idea evokes another form, and everything culminates in figures, animals, and things I had no way of foreseeing in advance.”