Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement ("Homme et femme devant un tas d'excréments") is a 1935 oil painting on copper by Joan Miró. The painting was made on a piece of copper in the week between 15 and 22 October 1935. Miró said that the subject resulted from trying to represent the tragedy and torture of the Spanish Civil War. The painting was one of twelve known as the "Wild Paintings". Half of these were painted on copper whilst the remaining six were on the type
Woman in Chains the impetus for the lyric to "Melody Maker": "I was reading some feminist literature at the time and I discovered that there are societies in the world still in existence today that are non-patriarchal. They don't have the man at the top and the women at the bottom. They're matricentric — they have the woman at the centre and these societies are a lot less violent, a lot less greedy and there's generally less animosity... but the song is also about how men traditionally play down the feminine side of their characters and how both men and women suffer for