![]() They met at the gym where they both went to unwind. “The Farm” was purchased by the then unknown author Ernest Hemingway. The entire scene is a world of objects and spaces to explore and enjoy. It can be found next to a tiny bright green lizard in the front right corner. As Miro indicated, there is even a tiny snail. Miro surrounds this scene of his family farm in Montroig with a brilliant blue sky and a lush forest. At the right the shed houses ladders, a goat, a rooster, a chicken, rabbits, and numerous apparatus of a working farm. Both the yellow house and yellow shed have red tile roofs. A yellow house at the left has a first floor stable with a horse and a front patio with a cart. Further along the path a girl draws water from a well, and a donkey turns a grinding wheel. At the center is a tall Eucalyptus tree next to a yellow path with foot prints and a dog. I wanted to put everything I loved about the country into that canvas–from a huge tree to a tiny snail.” Using colorful, flattened geometric patterns, Miro has depicted a tilled field with stylized buckets, pails, a watering can, a barrel, and a newspaper, all strewn about. He was inspired by the bright colors of Fauvism, the black outlines of Catalonian art, the Cubism of Picasso, the landscapes of Cezanne, and the freedom of Dadaism. Miro considered this painting a critical turning point in his art. He felt liberated: “I immediately burst into painting the way children burst into tears.” He declared he would go back and forth between “Paris and the countryside until I die.” He returned to Catalonia after three months. ![]() Like the other Dadaist, Miro allowed himself to be free of failed artistic traditions. The movement was anti many things, including traditional art. Tzara was the founder of the Dada movement, the artists reaction to Europe’s inability to stop World War I. ![]() Miro made a first, short trip in 1919 to Paris, where he met Picasso and the poet Tristan Tzara. Nevertheless, he said he had to paint because without painting he became in his words, ‘‘very depressed, gloomy and I get ‘black ideas’, and I do not know what to do with myself.” His first solo exhibition in Barcelona (1918) was a disaster. Miro was interested in and read about everything happening in the art world while he concentrated on drawing and painting nudes, portraits and a few landscapes. One of his fellow students was Antonio Gaudi. The following year 1912) Miro began studies at the Art Academy in Barcelona. I fell really ill, and stayed three months in bed.” To help with his recuperation the family bought a farm in Montroig, outside Barcelona. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1911, followed by a severe bout of typhoid fever: ‘’I was demoralized and suffered from a serious depression. ![]() His father wanted him to have a profession, so Miro went to the School of Commerce for three years, eventually taking a job as an accounting clerk in a drugstore. He was inspired by the art he saw during his visits to the Catalan art in the museum in Barcelona. By the age of seven he began taking drawing lessons. His father was a watchmaker and goldsmith, and his mother was the daughter of a cabinet maker thus craft and art were a part of his childhood. Juan Miro was born in Barcelona in the Catalan region of Spain.
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