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I say this against painters who presume to correct the works of nature , those , for example , who depict a one-year-old infant , whose head should be one fifth of its height , and who make it one eighth ; - and while the width of its shoulders is equal to that of the head , they make the head half as wide as the shoulders , and in this way , they endow a small one-year-old child with the proportions of a man of thirty . We achieve these ways of being and acting in a complex network of ever widening social experience to which we contribute : who we are in our family ; who we are as individuals in a larger social environment ; what our work will be and , once we have chosen it , how we fare in it ; whether we will marry , and what that choice will mean in relation to the paths of the older and younger generations in our family ; who we have become in our middle years and its relationship to our earlier dreams ; and as we near and enter old age , what our lives have meant , to others and to ourselves . All of this had to be rendered visually by the artists of the Christian West , and the glory of their art lies in the ways they invented for infusing natural appearances with divine presences , and yet leaving the visual world intact . But in his earliest drawings his mind is already at work on one of the problems which were to occupy him throughout his life , what I may call the problem of pentup energy . " Miro 's creation of a pictorial vocabulary reached its apex in 1940 when he executed a series of small gouaches entitled Constellations .