Title:The Tilled Field (French:La terre labourée; Catalan:Terra llaurada)
Artist: Joan Miró (Spanish/Catalan, 1893–1983)
Date Created: 1923–1924
Medium (Original): Oil on canvas
Original Dimensions: 66 cm × 92.7 cm (26 in × 36.5 in)
Current Museum Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Significance & Style:The Tilled Field is widely considered one of Miró’s foremost breakthroughs and a seminal milestone in early Surrealism. Painted at his family’s farm in Mont-roig del Camp, Catalonia, the work marks his radical transition from meticulous folk realism (seen in The Farm) to a dreamscape of biomorphic abstraction. The canvas is filled with hybrid creatures, an all-seeing tree with an eye and ear, miniature flags, and whimsical symbolic iconography.
