Autumn art work: "The Gleaner".
Expansion:
1. Introduction to "The Gleaners":
"The Gleaners" is a novel by the French Barbizon painter Jean Fran?ois. An oil painting on canvas created by Val Millet in 1857, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
This painting depicts the scene of people picking up remaining wheat ears from the fields after the autumn harvest in the countryside. The characters in the painting are realistic and vivid, with simple brushwork and bright and soft tones, embodying Miller's love for farmers. The profound feeling of life is a typical representative work of realism art style.
2. Content:
The picture depicts the most ordinary scene in a rural area: in autumn, the golden fields look endless, and in the front of the picture are three peasant women, after harvesting In a field, three peasant women are bent down to pick up the ears of wheat left on the ground. Three peasant women are lined up diagonally on the screen, with different postures and movements.
They picked so carefully and carefully that they were afraid of missing an ear of wheat. The background is a harvested field, vast and vast, with stacks of wheat piled up like mountains. It is a scene of busy harvesting. A carriage loaded with wheat is about to drive away. In the upper right, there is a man on horseback pointing at the farmers. People and many farmers are working.
Creative background and work evaluation
1. Creative background:
Before the mid-19th century, Westerners had always regarded oil painting as a patent for the upper class. Although there are some works showing the life of peasants in oil paintings, they all appear in the form of satire, which is nothing more than a source of entertainment for the nobles to talk about after dinner. It was not until the realist painter Miller appeared as a peasant painter that this situation quietly changed.
Some French artists regard describing the reality of life as the highest principle of creation. Artists face up to the naked reality, boldly describe real life without whitewashing, affirm the significance of ordinary people in art, and expose capitalist society. sin.
2. Evaluation of the work:
French writer Romain Rolland: The three peasant women in Miller's paintings are the three goddesses of France.
French art critic Jules Castanelli: Modern artists believe that a beggar in broad daylight is indeed more beautiful than a king sitting on the throne; When I suppressed my moans, I saw three bent peasant women picking up fallen ears in the harvested fields. This gripped my heart more painfully than seeing the martyrdom of a saint.