Nine months (curiously, the same as the human gestation) every day painting and erasing it and doing studies and returning to destroy them! The house was the summary of my life (spiritual and poetic) in the field. Miró was the first reporter on the story of his artwork: In them, as in The Farm, can be observed succession in the transformation of figurative forms to other places, where there are all kinds of symbol and graphics. Miró later would use the area of Mont-Roig in other works such as Earth and worker or Catalan Landscape (The Hunter). Hemingway wrote in 1934 in the journal Cahiers d'art, "I won't change The Farm for any painting in the world" Then, Jacques Viot, of the Pierre gallery, who after a few treatments, sold it to the writer Ernest Hemingway, for five thousand french francs. Miró, angry, picked up the canvas and took it to his workshop. Léonce Rosenberg, among others who took care of the paintings of Picasso, agreed to have it in storage and any time and at the insistence of Miró, he seriously suggested dividing the canvas into small pieces to make it easier to sell. is essential to have your feet firmly resting on the ground to lift the flight through the air when painting has to walk on land, because, through the limbs, it communicates its force.īy economic necessity, he began a tour with art dealers to sell this artwork. The observation of everything around him and the lights on the rocks and trees, that changed in certain times the brightness of the sun, made the artist feel bound to the element earth, which was said: It was a time when Miró was established in Paris and alternated with some travels, especially summers in Mont-Roig. The Farm was started on Miró's first trip back to Mont-roig del Camp from France, and was completed in Paris. This relationship with the land can be captured in the paintings produced between 19 as Vegetable Garden with Donkey(1918) or Montroig, the church and the people(1919).
The painter, though born in Barcelona, was always linked with the rural world, especially the town of Mont-roig del Camp, and his early works show an influence of the landscapes and characters in their summer country views in the land of Tarragona. Main view of Mas Miró, the family farmhouse of Joan Miró.
No one else has been able to paint these two very opposing things.” Miró himself regarded this work as a key in his career, describing it as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow." It is preserved in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, where it was given in 1987 by Mary Hemingway, coming from the private collection of American writer Ernest Hemingway, who had described it by saying, “It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there. It is a kind of inventory of the masia (traditional Catalan farmhouse) owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. The Farm is an oil painting made by Joan Miró between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp and winter 1922 in Paris. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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