When Louis Aragon asked a seventy-year-old Matisse who, besides Picasso, he considered a true painter, the master initially thought of Bonnard, but then corrected himself: “Miró... Yes, Miró..

His practice is often described as painterly, and he has cited Joan Miró as an influence. “When somebody looks at something as wire-ly as, say, a Miró painting, this issue is never ‘what is this about ...