Author: Jean Francois Millet time: 1850 Material: oil painting canvas Miller sower.

[1] Specification: 10 1cmX82.5cm Now in possession: Boston Museum of Art, USA.

works appreciation

1850 The Sower exhibited by Jean-Francois Miller at the Paris Salon made him famous in both good and bad sense. Painting working farmers and showing their lives is by no means a pleasant thing; The countryside is not paradise. Of course, before that, there were painters who painted farmers' lives. For example,/kloc-austad, a Dutch painter in the 0/7th century, painted them. But the farmers they painted are all eating, drinking, boring chatting, fighting and so on, and they are not working farmers. But Millay painted a farmer with a sweaty forehead. The sower wore big wooden boots and a seed bag hung around his waist. He walked forward step by step while sowing seeds with his right hand. Use European farming methods, so that after sowing the seeds, let the horse drag the plow to bury the soil. However, when we look at the picture, dozens of birds fly behind the farmer who sowed, trying to eat all the seeds he sowed. This painting attracted the anxiety of "senior citizens", who saw the image of the street people in Paris similar to the June Revolution in the rhythmic and powerful actions of the sowers. However, the progressives at that time reacted differently. Writer Hugo saw the praise of people's creativity from this painting and fully affirmed it. Miller uses a simple and concise image like a sculpture to express generally thought-provoking content, so van Gogh, a Dutch painter, commented: "In Miller's works, realistic images are also symbolic."

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Basic information

Name: Sower, also known as the farmer who calls it a day off, sunset English name: The Sower Creation Time:1June 888 Creation place: arles Type: canvas oil painting size: 64x80.5cm Existing: Crolle-Mueller Museum, otero.

Introduction of works

Van Gogh used strong yellow and blue contrasting colors to express the wheat field landscape in the sunset. The prospect is broad and the background is tense, showing the effect of settling for the second best. The posture and position of farmers and the earth ditch on the ground form a balance of up-and-down dynamic potential.

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Shortly after Van Gogh arrived in arles, he wrote: "What I learned in Paris seems to have gradually disappeared, but on the contrary, when I lived in my hometown, I kept thinking about the painting methods before Impressionism." In his early years, he wanted to be a farmer painter. He painted with the theme of "Sower" several times, and his admiration for Miller never changed. The theme of this painting is from Miller, which can be said to be one of his masterpieces. The composition of the picture is a rare tilt, with trees and figures prominently drawn in front and the sun painted as a lemon-colored disc. This way of composition should benefit from Japanese printmaking, which is pure plane freehand brushwork. Pink clouds are floating in the yellow-green sky, the ground is lavender, and trees and people use bright blue, black and brown. The symbolic use of color and bold composition method in this painting make us have to study this investigation deeply. I remember Bingler wrote in the "Symbol of Color" section of "The Decline of the West": "Blue and green are the colors of the sky, the sea, the fertile plains at midnight and southern Europe, as well as the colors of dusk and distant mountains. Essentially, they belong to the air, not the real color. They are cold and can dissolve everything, and they evoke a vast, distant and infinite impression. " Therefore, in the history of "perspective" oil painting, the blue-green color representing the air range is an element to create or change space; It is a basic and particularly important tone, which supports the whole color effect we want to use, just as the keynote bass supports the orchestra. As for the warm colors of yellow and red, they are slowly mixed in according to these basic colors. However, after entering the impressionist period, the blue-green color was submerged and replaced by the natural light that painters kept trying. When the color woke up in Van Gogh's hands, I suddenly found that it had burned in the air, and the flames were overwhelming, and the fields were all over the harvest ... All the poetry of the past blue and green is now burning in the golden yellow of this madman. No one thought that he could express such a theme with such colors and compositions ... maybe, maybe even Van Gogh didn't think that he would use it.

Brief introduction of the author

Name: Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh Birthday:1March 30, 853 Occupation: painter's death time:1July 29, 890 Faction: Impressionism, expressionism, native place: Netherlands Experience: worked as an art dealer, and worked as a representative missionary: potato eater, night coffee, sunflower, starry night. Van Gogh committed suicide at the age of 37. As an artist, it was not until shortly before his death that he won the praise of critics for his shocking and imaginative paintings. Within a few years after Van Gogh's death, some painters began to imitate his painting methods. In order to express strong feelings, they can't truthfully reflect the reality. This creative attitude is called expressionism and proved to be a lasting trend in modern painting.

the sower

1888 canvas oil painting 73.5 * 93cm (Burray Collection, Zurich)

Shortly after Van Gogh arrived in arles, he wrote, "What I learned in Paris seems to have faded away. On the contrary, when I lived in my hometown, I have been thinking about the painting methods before Impressionism. " In his early years, he wanted to be a farmer painter. He painted with the theme of "Sower" several times, and his admiration for Miller remained unchanged throughout his life. The theme of this painting is from Miller, which can be said to be one of his masterpieces.

The composition of the picture is a rare tilt, with trees and figures prominently drawn in front and the sun painted as a lemon-colored disc. This way of composition should benefit from Japanese printmaking, which is pure plane freehand brushwork. Pink clouds are floating in the yellow-green sky, the ground is lavender, and trees and people use bright blue, black and brown. The symbolic use of color and bold composition method in this painting make us have to study this investigation deeply.

I still remember that in Bingler, blue and green are the colors of the sky, the sea, the fertile plains at midnight and southern Europe, and also the colors of dusk and distant mountains. Essentially, they belong to the air, not the real color. They are cold and can dissolve everything, and they evoke a vast, distant and infinite impression. "

Therefore, in the history of perspective oil painting, the blue-green color representing the air range is an element to create or change space; It is a basic and particularly important tone, which supports the whole color effect we want to use, just as the keynote bass supports the orchestra. As for warm yellow and red, it is gradually integrated with these basic colors.

However, after entering the impressionist period, the blue-green color was submerged and replaced by the natural light that painters kept trying.

When the color woke up in Van Gogh's hands, I suddenly found that it was already burning in the air, and the flames were overwhelming and unstoppable, and it had been running from the sky to the harvested fields ... All the poetry in the past was blue and green, and now it is burning in the golden yellow of this madman. No one thought it could express such a theme with such colors and compositions ... Maybe, maybe even Van Gogh didn't think he would. ...