A Slightly Surreal Floral Arrangement Inspired by Joan Miró

Floral designer Lindsey Taylor reflects upon the meaning of a painting by surrealist Joan Miró, and then says it with flowers

Lindsey Taylor

Feb. 22, 2019 4:31 p.m. ET

At first glance, Joan Miró’s “The Hunter, Catalan Landscape” (1924) appears purely abstract, all squiggles and blobs. But a closer look at the piece—part of “Birth of the World,” an exhibit dedicated to the Spanish surrealist (1893-1983) that runs until June 15 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art—reveals elements of a classic scenic tableau, complete with bisecting shoreline or horizon. To the left, a stick figure likely representing the hunter smokes a pipe and holds a dead rabbit in one hand, his gun in the other. Various other country critters of Catalan, the artist’s childhood home, populate the scene.

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