Miller has a deep affection for nature and country life. He gets up early and comes home late. He works in the fields in the morning and paints in a small room with weak light in the afternoon. He once said, "The theme of farmers suits me best anyway." Miller's first masterpiece in barbizon was The Sower, which was the first time that Miller was accepted by the official salon. 1848, the February Revolution broke out in France, and the resistance of the lower classes such as workers and peasants played a great role. Against this background, the conservative official salon turned against the author of The Sower, probably because Miller portrayed a real person in this painting. ? ——? Labor is glorious.
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▲ gleaner 1857, Jean-Fran? ois Miller
83.5x111cm, oil painting on canvas.
Collected in the Musee d 'Orsay in Paris.
Jean Francois Millet's gleaner, painted on 1857, is a realistic work with a simple picture. Three peasant women are bending down to pick up the ears of wheat. Generally speaking, gleaner is a moving painting. The characters are arranged in different positions and do different actions. Although it is a work with farmers as the theme, we can feel the beauty brought by the picture. Miller's overall composition is arranged in strict accordance with the golden section ratio, which is recognized as the most aesthetic ratio.
"Scavengers" reflects the sufferings of farmers, just like throwing a stone at Wang Yang, a wealthy class. Its most precious place is to record life truthfully and move the details of reality into the painting.
Miller was born in a peasant family, but he loved painting since he was a child. In order to practice his painting skills and get in touch with the wider world, Miller went to Paris. At that time, many painters in Paris worked for aristocrats, and many portraits of aristocrats appeared, which ran counter to Miller's artistic pursuit. Finally, he chose to move to barbizon Village, where he painted gleaner.
19 Before the 1970s, the French countryside was still under the feudal patriarchal system. Farmers live a hard life, while the rich are indifferent. An article in a French newspaper once wrote: "These three outstanding scavengers are in front of a cloudy sky, and behind them are the swords and spears of peasant riots and the guillotine of 1793."
"Scavengers" has a warning function, which is too real and makes people feel terrible.
Van Gogh admired Miller and once said, "In Miller's works, the realistic image is also symbolic."
▲? Van Gogh's Sower in the Sunset 1888
The Sower in the Sunset belongs to Vincent's later paintings. Judging from the color tone of this work, it inherits the fiery feeling of Vincent's later works as always, and the main color adopts the contrast tone of cobalt blue and orange. This is too bold, yes, he has always been an unreasonable person in people's eyes! Everyone around him is afraid of this red-haired monster. The whole painting requires high accuracy of contrast tone, and Vincent is very accurate in this respect, and the whole painting presents bright and eye-catching visual effects. It is such a painter who left his paintings to the whole art festival and became a shackle. This influence has brought shock to people in the past and present.
From Vincent's heart, this painting has the meaning of "harvest season" In the past few years, he has only received the support of his younger brother Theo, so he is eager for the support and recognition of his family and the outside world. Broaden the perspective, in addition to the aesthetic needs, people appreciate this work, but also more daydream about the distant world. Does this represent Vincent's vision for the future? The light emitted by the sunset uses mottled brushstrokes. When the western hills are about to set, the sunset still appears in a complete radiant state, which more firmly and undoubtedly expresses Vincent's inner cry-the desire for life!
Enthusiasm, boldness and boldness are the definitions of the sower in the sunset. Or Vincent's concept of character proportion is not as profound as other painters, but he brings us another high-end visual enjoyment. To understand Vincent, we must understand his paintings, and his words come from his passionate self and passion for art.
▲? Miller's "Late Bell" oil painting 66? X55.6cm cm
1859 is now in the Osei Art Museum in Paris.
Seeing the peasant couple silently praying in the fields, we seem to hear the church bells faintly visible in the distance: this "bell" seems to be getting louder and louder, spreading farther and farther ... Perhaps it is the way farmers standing in silhouette in the farmland cross the horizon, which reminds people of the solemn and sacred "cross", thus narrowing the distance between farmers, churches and audiences and strengthening the "sound" induction of the church bell tower; Perhaps it is because of the shadow of the sunset, the contrast between the breathless farmer and the silent earth; Perhaps it is because the painter deliberately blurred the characters and scenery just right. Not only can the characters, scenery, church and the "bell" coming from the church be integrated, but it seems that the viewer is painting the people and the middle scene, and the church and the bell tower coming from the church are also integrated. ...
This rich and strong religious emotion, this dignified and sacred religious atmosphere, this solemn and awe-inspiring fatalism and the image of a peaceful and happy Christian, this profound and tragic poetic realm, point directly to the spiritual magic of people's hearts; If you are not a devout Christian, you have not cultivated in the religious field to a certain extent, you have no profound literary and artistic accomplishment, and you have no great spiritual input and superb painting skills, it is difficult to create such a masterpiece.
This peasant image, which is rough and simple in appearance, even Mu Na's dementia, but pure and pious in heart, is docile and kind, which not only reflects Miller's deep understanding and deep feelings for farmers, but also reflects the artist's strong democratic consciousness and realistic spirit in the second half of the19th century.
▲? Lie Bin is a tracker on the Volga River.
Tracker on the Volga River (Russian name: бурлакнаволге, English name: Volga River trackers) is a Russian critical realist painter Ilya E. This painting depicts the portrait of a group of trackers struggling to pull fibers along the Volga River in a depressed atmosphere, reflects the tragic life of Russian trackers, places the painter's sympathy for the tragic life of the lower class, and artistically embodies the author's democratic revolutionary thought.
▲? The woman who harvested wheat in Zan province came back from the field.
Vasily Gregorije Petrov (1834- 1882)
1874, oil painting on canvas, 25.8× 65cm, signed at the lower left: 1874 вперовъъ 1939, collected in Gaer, Moscow.
The size of "Wheat Harvester Returning from the Field in Ryazan Province" is not large, but it reflects the artist's efforts in some modeling problems. The theme of peasant women coming home from golden fields after a hard day's work is directly related to the real rural life. At the same time, the motif of "road" is very popular in Russian art, which is directly related to the universal topics of human existence, wandering, wandering, life path and so on. This painting depicts peasant women of different ages. Some people walk quietly, others stop to meditate and listen to the voice of Mother Earth. Pirov uses a horizontal composition, and the portrait has a regular rhythm. The woman who cuts wheat walks in the harvested grain, giving people the impression of slow and smooth movements, making the picture full of musical melodies and reminiscent of Russian folk songs. (tatyana Yudenko Eva)
▲? A woman who picks up the ears of wheat
Leon Augustine Lemite (Leo Lemaistre)
189 1 canvas oil painting
Leon Augustine Lemaistre (French, 1844- 1925), as one of the most prolific artists in the19th century, Lemaistre's popularity reached its peak when he created this painting. He made an important contribution to the development of realistic painting. Unlike many contemporary painters, Lemaitre never gave up his pursuit of painting techniques. He has made great achievements in sketching and pastel paper.
From 65438 to 0890, Lemaistre, who was disappointed with the official art salon, organized a group of like-minded colleagues and established the French National Artists Association. The Woman Picking Ears was exhibited in the second annual exhibition of the Association and was highly praised.
▲? San Pere, mt
Lermyte French 1883? Canvas oil painting
76.80×97.20 cm
After 1880, the painter used several paintings that greatly described the life and work of the villagers in his hometown, Mount St. Petraeus, and achieved great success. Among them, The Wheat Cutter in St Peter's Mountain was a great success. It is particularly worth mentioning that Lemaistre painted the same figure into his works many times, and the faces in several paintings can be completely recognized. The wheat reaper in this painting is a farmer named Kahimi Hand, who is resting after heavy work and ignores the conversation of two stout peasant women beside him.
Leon Augustine Lemaistre (1844-1925) was born in the French province of Eina in Picardy and lived there for 20 years. This is also the reason why he is attached to rural life, and almost all his works are used to describe farm work. Before the success of 1874 French Salon, he traveled back and forth between France and England to sell paintings for a living. After 1880, he took part in the exhibition with several paintings depicting the life and work of villagers in his hometown of San Pietro, which was a great success, including "The Wheat Cutter in San Pietro".
▲? Second Harvest Dupuy 1879
Not only Miller, but also the pastoral scenery is the favorite of French painter Dupuy. In this second harvest, the author used his back to form a stable triangle composition, which conveyed a firm and eternal message to people.
▲? Maid screener Courbet131x167cm1853.
1848, the French revolution broke out. Courbet took an active part in the French Revolution. On the canvas, I began to create a theme depicting working people. The peak of Courbet's creation is 10 years after the age of 30. He has successfully created the artistic images of a group of laborers, among which The Maid Screener, written in 1854, is one of them.
The young peasant woman in a red vest skirt is the main character in this painting. She turned her back to the audience and knelt on the white cloth on the ground. She wears a bun that is convenient for work, revealing a slender and graceful neck, and her arms holding a sieve are round and powerful. The exposed soles seem to tell us that she is not the kind of rich lady who can't go out without going out the second door. The peasant woman has no decoration, but she has unparalleled bodybuilding. The red skirt on her body is more like a banner that praises labor and inspires people.
On the left side of the picture, another peasant woman wearing a headscarf and a gray dress sits on a white cloth and carefully selects wheat. The boy on the right in the picture opens the wooden cabinet and is looking for something. Maybe I help with the housework as my mother told me. The little boy is wearing a green plaid shirt, with a chubby face and a look of joy. It can be said that Courbet's simplicity of the whole painting is very accurate. He didn't exaggerate poverty and hard work, but made his daily work prosperous and interesting.
He explained his paintings like this: "Art should be placed at a lower level." Of course, the "low-level" in his mouth does not refer to painting techniques, but refers to the painter's vision to focus on the simple beauty of the working people at the bottom, and the era of flattering the upper class is gone forever.
Appreciate oil paintings with more labor.