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''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. It is a kind of inventory of the farmhouse owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. 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."〔Arthur C Danto, ''Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present,'' University of California Press, 1997: p. 101.〕 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. No one else has been able to paint these two very opposing things.” ==History== 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.〔Rebull 1994: p. 4〕 This relationship with the land can be captured in the paintings produced between 1918 and 1924 as ''Vegetable Garden with Donkey''(1918) or ''Montroig, the church and the people''(1919). The work of ''The farm'' was started on Miró's first trip back to Mont-roig del Camp from France, and was completed in Paris.〔Rebull 1994: p. 9〕 It was a time when Miró was established in Paris and alternated with some travels, especially summers in Mont-Roig.〔Suarez/Vidal 1989: p. 297〕 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: By economic necessity, he began a tour with art dealers to sell this artwork. 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. Miró, angry, picked up the canvas and took it to his workshop. Then, Jacques Viot, of the Pierre gallery, who after a few treatments, sold it to the writer Ernest Hemingway, for five thousand french francs.〔Malet 1992: pp. 29–32〕 Hemingway wrote in 1934 in the journal Cahiers d'Art, "I won't change ''The Farm'' for any painting in the world" Miró later would use the area of Mont-Roig in other works such as ''Earth and worker'' or ''Catalan Landscape (The Hunter)''. 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.〔Martinez Muñoz 2000: p. 99〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Farm (Miró)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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