Travel

Left: The Perceides II, right: Le Somnambule. Both by Joan Miró. “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory,” Louise Glück wrote in Nostos, a line that feels almost uncannily suited to Joan Miró, whose art understood that childhood was not a lesser state of intelligence, but perhaps the original kingdom of perception. To paint like a child is often misunderstood as an act of innocence. In Miró’s hands, however, that gesture became something far more dangerou