Femmes et oiseaux

"This theme of the woman and bird provides us with one of the keys to Miró's cosmic imagination: it expounds the conflict between the earthly and aerial elements and, in the dialogue between the woman and the bird, renders the precariousness of the balance achieved between them... . Nothing is heavy or stabilised in this poetic stylisation of woman in the process of metamorphosis between fixity and volatility. The analogy between the two creatures, and the interlacing of their lines are sometimes so strong that it is hard to say where the woman ends and the bird begins, whether they do not after all form one marvellous hybrid creature... . This suspended union... takes place in the privileged space of carnal light, in an intimacy of nature, which Miró has never departed from. Reality is revealed as a sort of break in the smooth running of time." (J. Dupin, Miró: Life and Work, London 1962, p. 485)