Le Penseur puissant

Of the hundred or so prints in Volume III of Joan Miro's etchings, seventy-two use the carborundum technique. The powerful thinker captures the viewer with the depth of black, the vividness of red and the contrast created between the two. From the lines and shapes drawn by the black appears the silhouette of a man with a shy smile, probably "The Powerful Thinker". This power comes from the red spread almost violently across the paper, but also from the figure that imposes itself from all sides, even in the margins.