No Music, No Life?

Miro's painting is straight up funky. The colors, the shapes, the lines, and the overall energy that it creates makes me either smile, or just want to go out and live. Enjoy, and even sing.

I wonder what is he implying with this painting? You can see plenty of figures that resemble reality, but they are all distorted in ways that cannot be described. There is this man playing his guitar, or banjo, or whatever that may be and he is inside a house. There is a dog that is enjoying music and looks like it were drugged. There is also a cat, and at the time, the rest of the shapes inside his house seem abstract and undecipherable. Yet, I see a house with a lake, at the left side, in which there are animals and trees.

My immediate understanding of this painting was that music, or art, are the foundations of life, or at least happiness. You can interpret this from the attention that the musician is getting. Most of the objects are revolving around him, or looking up to him as the cat, and the squirrel that I've just found on the wall.

Aside from this, his body is on rule of thirds, and even more so, his face the most notorious thing for me. (By the way, his face is another red balloon.) There are many lines and shapes that direct your eye onto the character and the contrast of his red face, with the whiteness that surrounds him, make him stand out.

The colors are very unreal. Most of them are tones that you wouldn't find normally find. For instance, there is the vibrant green on the walls, and the blue that we find on many details, such as as the trees, and the lake. This is the kind of blue you would find on top of a Disney cupcake. (By the way, to clear things out, I don't mean that the colors are unreal because you wouldn't find them in reality. I say that they are unreal because they are not common. You'd most likely see them as artificial.)