Even the familiar can seem rearranged and changed as we long for a place to rest our eyes and hearts in peace. We see both a visual reality and departures from a remembered reality as we make our way now. The two views in one theme of this painting seems emblematic of our times. It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This work was once owned by Ernest Hemingway. And here we also see an unusual view beyond the everyday as those details are arranged and simplified in the geometric abstraction of Cubism. Here we see the many details of his life on this farm, his visual reality. The colors are stunning and this work is a feast for the eyes. 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. He painted in the Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism styles. "It is the summary of my entire life in the countryside, one period of my work and a point of departure for what was to follow," Joan Miro.Joan Miro (1893-1983) was a Spanish artist. Miro's work has greatly inspired artists such as Gorky, Pollock, Rothko, Motherwell and modern designers such as Paul Rand. The Farm, also Miro's poetic perception of the Catalan countryside is known for its clarity of objects and defined strokes that can be easily recognised. Miró’s encounter with the Paris avant-garde would bring more modern influences to bear on his work, as seen in The Farm (1921), a semi-realistic, semi-Cubist rendering of his childhood home. "It has all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when away and cannot go there.no one else has been able to paint these two opposing things," Ernest Hemingway said as he bought the painting and compared it to James Joyce's Ulysses. The painting was almost cut and sold as small pieces by Rosenberg to make more sales but Miro insistently refused. It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington (which is also the final venue of this exhibition) as a gift of the widow of the American writer Ernest Hemingway. The objects and elements in The Farm became forms of prototypes symbol that would be in his other works. The Farm, 1922 Catalan Title: La Granja One of the works that most perplexed people was The Farm, that Mir made during 1920-1 and would always consider his first masterpiece. However, he also included elements of surrealism, or in other terms, modernism. The creation, completed in 1922, depicts his family farm in a realistic manner. Mir considered his oil painting to be among the most significant works of his life. The patterned and flat background would become paramount in his mature styles in paintings such as Nude With a Mirror and The Table- Still Life With Rabbit. The Farm by Spanish artist Joan Mir is a priceless masterpiece.
Observing everything in the Catalan scene as the lights on the objects changed made him feel bound to the element earth. The realistic representation of each element shows the relationship between Miro and the farmhouse. Captivating are the daily farm activities, plants, traits of domestic animals, the building with cracks and crevices and the large eucalyptus tree in the centre, which is born of a black circle. Miro focuses on each element detail separately and arranges them in a very precise and conscious form. As in the church of the people and Montroig paintings, the relationship between Miro and the rural land is clear from the painting's re-creation of the childlike, objectification of the Catalan pride and the individualistic style of painting.
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