Word: montroig
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...Hemingway for $200 in Paris, is one of Miró's earliest efforts to distill the essence of Spain and the way in which its savage, whimsical, passionate people still cling close to the earth. The scene depicts the farm bought by his father, a Barcelona goldsmith, at Montroig, a coastal village in Catalonia. For all its literalness, the painting is anything but realistic. By its microscopic stylization, it turns each detail, including the lizard and snail in the foreground, into a symbol. "I wanted," recalls Miró, "to penetrate into the spirit of objects. I realized the cubists...