The artwork titled “Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird” was created by the artist Joan Miró in 1926. Executed in oil on canvas, the piece measures 73.7 by 92 centimeters and is considered to be part of the Surrealism movement. The genre of the artwork is figurative, and it is currently housed at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, New York, United States.
The artwork displays a distinctively surrealist aesthetic with abstracted forms and a vivid color palette. The composition separates into two dominant sections with a yellow foreground and a blue-green background. A central white figure dominates the scene, abstractly representing a person characterized by organic shapes and a minimalistic facial feature indicated by a single yellow eye. The figure appears to be in motion, suggesting the act of throwing, as indicated by the title. To the left, a bird, reduced to a few simple shapes and colors, seems to be the target of the stone, visible as a small white form, establishing a narrative within the work. In typical surrealist fashion, the scene defies conventional visual logic, creating an imaginative and dream-like atmosphere where the precise contours of reality blur.
