 The painting has since been heralded as an anti-war work and a symbol of peace in the 20th century.Joan Miró created "El Segador" (The Reaper), formally titled "El campesino catalán en rebeldía" (Catalan peasant in revolt), which spans some 18 feet by 12 feet and depicted a peasant brandishing a sickle in the air, to which Miró commented that "The sickle is not a communist symbol.It is the reaper's symbol, the tool of his work, and, when his freedom is threatened, his weapon."