
He wrote in 1934, “I won’t change The Farm for any painting in the world.” Ernest Hemingway bought the painting and compared its artistic accomplishment to James Joyce’s Ulysses.

He described it as “the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow.” The painting is regarded as the highest point of Miro’s realistic representations, before he shifted to surrealism. Miro later said of the artwork, “I wanted to put everything I loved about the country in the canvas, from a huge tree to a tiny little snail.” Miro regarded “The Farm” as the pinnacle of his artistic career. Joan Miro’s most famous painting, “The Farm” shows the family’s country house in Mont-roig del Camp, Catalonia. His final work was the large sculpture “ Woman and Bird ,” which was displayed in the gardens on the former site of the Barcelona abattoir. Joan Miró died Decemin Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Stones, branches and manufactured items were joined in a Surrealist style but also in a way that revealed his desire for the simplicity of nature. Beginning in 1966, Miró worked mostly in sculptures, which were based on small objects that he joined in unique ways. In 1960, Miró’s artistic style underwent a dramatic change when he started using the color black to outline shapes and fill them in.
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He went to the Netherlands in 1928 and started a series of paintings inspired by Dutch artists, and he created his first papiers collés and collages.


Miró was part of the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre. He joined the Surrealist art movement in 1924, and in 1925 his work was featured at the Galerie Pierre in Paris where it was a huge Surrealist art event. Happy birthday to Joan Miró, a Spanish painter, printmaker and sculptor of abstract art.
