Plowed Field

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York, the USA).

Together with the work “The Hunter” of the same year, this picture marked the transition of the artist to surrealism. Under the influence of the Parisian avant-garde, a special symbolic language appeared in Miro’s works, and naturalistic and detailed pictures of everyday life were replaced by fantastic plots and an appeal to the subconscious. Traits characteristic of the artist’s mature style appear in the picture: simplified stylized forms and curving lines, large areas flooded with local colour and a unique atmosphere in which every smallest detail has a magical or symbolic meaning. The canvas attracts with its positive mood and surprises with its unusual characters, as if coming out of a children’s fairy tale, it opens up a whole new world – the picturesque world of Joan Miró.