The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet

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The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet
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Homage to a Masterpiece:
Title of this artwork: The Gleaners
Name of creator: Jean-François Millet
Date: 1857
Medium: Oil paint
Dimensions: 84 cm x 1.12 m
The artist came from France and lived from October 4, 1814 to January 20, 1875. Here is
considered to be one of co-founder of the popular “Barbizon school” present at the area of rural
France. His parents were the associates of the agricultural community at a village having the name
Gruchy, present in Gréville-Hague. Within the guidance of a couple of village priests like vicar Jean

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Lebrisseux, Millet gained knowledge of Latin and different modern authors. However, he had the
urgency to help his father since he was the oldest son. Hence, various tasks of the farmer has been
familiar to him like mowing, making hat, binding sheaves, thresh, winnow, spread, sow and plow
and so on. Al the motifs has reflected in his art later on (Millet, 2020). During 1833 he was sent to
study with Paul Dumouchel a portrait painter ("Great Works Of Western Art - The Gleaners").
In the current picture, realism is the style that is followed. More specifically it is the French
Realism. The idea of Realism has its roots in Francs from 1940s, after the famous French
Revolution. The Realists was revolting against the people following Romanticism having the strong
focus on dramatic impacts and intense level of emotions. Its objective was to depict the simple,
“real” human beings, ordinary and different events along with objectivity. Here, the original art
comprise of liberal usage of shadow with the usage of primary colors. The focus of the painting has
been put on the lowest ranks of rural society that has attracted considerable amount of the opposition
from the upper classes. Here, they were been upset because of the artistic affectation and communal
fanaticism and associated to the emerging Socialist movement. Nonetheless, this has been
acknowledged for its exhibition at almanac “Salon of the Academy”. Moreover, this has been highly
admired from the side of French republicans. This is for its self-esteem and realistic gratefulness of
pastoral poor (Harper). In the present secnario, Millet has mainly intended to provide the depiction
of Biblical story of Ruth, with a widow meeting Boaz. It had the kinsman and landowner eventually
turning to be her husband as she was seen to be gleaning in fields. Displaying the task at 1853 Salon,
the artist changes his to “Harvesters Resting”. This has been one of these woks that highlighted
group instead of any isolated figure under one single landscape. The tableu format composition of
Millet along with the soft palette has been denoting the understanding Nicolas Poussin, the classical
French Baroque artist (Zeybek, Hasan and Uğurcan).