Miller is called by posterity, what kind of person is Miller?

Millet (1814-1875) was an outstanding French realist painter and an outstanding representative of the Barbizon School. Born into a peasant family in Normandy, he lived a life of poverty all his life. In 1837, he went to Paris to study painting with the support of the Cherbourg City Council.

For the first time after the February Revolution of 1848, state orders were accepted. In 1849, he settled in the village of Barbizon on the outskirts of Paris, where he established a sincere friendship with Rousseau. Throughout his life, he wrote about farmers with deep feelings.

He lived in Barbizon for 27 years and created many monumental masterpieces. On his deathbed, Miller heard the wailing of a dying deer in the forest of Fontainebleau. He said:

The poor animal is calling me, and I should go! ”

Gleaning Miller French Miller is mainly influenced by Michelangelo and Poussin in terms of artistic origin, and his painting style is simple and dignified. The image is solemn and the ridge is monumental. His artistic language is very calm, with rich and harmonious tones, and a vast and silent artistic conception.

It has a profound expression of the inner spirit of man and nature. His representative works include "The Sower", "Gleaning", "Evening Bell", "The Feeding of the Birds", "The Man Leaning on the Hoe", "The Shepherdess" and so on.

Gleaning is one of Miller's most famous masterpieces, showing three poor peasant women bent over picking up ears of wheat in a harvested field. The painter did not make any embellishments, and we could not even see their faces hanging down to the ground. But the sacredness of labor, the precision of asking the land to give food, is already the best praise for the laborers.

It is because of it that the public is amazed for the first time to discover the greatness of ordinary labor. That's why "on the horizon behind the gleaners, there seems to be a spear of rebellion and a guillotine of 1793."

Miller's Evening Bell is the most popular work of art in the world. In the vast twilight, the peasant couple praying with the bells of the distant church aroused many feelings and associations! Are they celebrating the birth of a baby?

Or a blessed ...... of happiness in marriageMiller's monumental work expresses the melancholy poetry of the moment when man's struggle with the earth tends to a moment of tranquility, the solemnity and greatness of the lonely prayer in the vast barren field at the twilight hour.

Miller was a master of passionate praise of peasant life, and as a peasant genre painter, there is no one in the history of European art who can compare with him.

The Sower", "The Gleaner", "The Evening Bell", "Feeding", "Mother's Love", "The Shepherdesss Leaning on the Hoe", "The Dustpan", "Miller's Self-Portrait", "Spring", "A Shepherdesss and Her Flock", "Weaving Lesson", "Daisy".