> from the MOMA. Like I said in my original comments, this picture makes
> me really wonder at your intent, Jim, because the depiction is so unlike
> Miro's own work or my expectation of his personality. In that sense,
> this picture is very surreal in the antagonistic way in which pictures
> of a black Santa Clause are surreal.
> 


Yes I think this is an accurate criticism.  The intent was to juxtapose 
the early stylization of a self-portrait he did with the stylization of 
his later "Constellation" paintings and just see where it went.  I think 
I also had in mind a drawing similar to this one

http://www.csulb.edu/~karenk/20thcwebsite/438final/ah438fin-Full.00053.html

that I was used to seeing hang in one of the museums here,... maybe the 
MoMA. I remember it being quite pale and monochromatic. I thought of it 
as kind of a surrealist mask.  But I agree that the colors in my tracing 
took off on a course of their own and don't reflect Miro's color 
sensibility too much.

-Jim

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