When all is said and done, I would give up a LOT to be in a room with both Hemingway and Miró. With an exhibition of Joan Miró’s work now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, we turn back to the May 1959 issue of ARTnews, for which artist Robert Motherwell delved into the. “I wanted to put everything I loved about the country into that canvas-from a huge tree to a tiny snail.” ( Here’s a photo of the real thing in case you’re curious like I was.)įamously, Miró’s vision resonated with Ernest Hemingway, who wrote that the painting “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,” and that “no one else has been able to paint these two very opposing things.” A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundaci Joan Mir, was established in his. Miró himself described this painting as “a summary of my entire life in the country,” which perhaps explains the nearly maniacal attention to detail. Joan Mir i Ferr ( / mro / mi-ROH, 1 US also / miro / mee-ROH, 2 3 Catalan: uam mio j fra 20 April 1893 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. Joan Mir Spanish, 18931983 The Farm, 19211922 oil on canvas, 123.8 x 141.3 x 3.3 cm (48 3/4 x 55 5/8 x 1 5/16 in.

It depicts a traditional masía (Catalan: mas), essentially a familial farming compound commonly found throughout Catalonia.

For almost every element, he carefully devotes his own space, as if inventorying memories or composing a collection. Joan Miró painted The Farm between the summer of 1921 in Moint-roig del Camp and winter 1922 in Paris, devoting as many as eight hours per day for nine months to its completion. Miro takes a canvas of almost 140 by 150 cm in size - and works for 9 months daily, meticulously filling it with all the important attributes of farming in Mont Roch: animals, plants, agricultural tools and buildings.

Miro the farm