Miller's ear digger
Miller belongs to barbizon School. Kala-azar became popular in Paris from 65438 to 0849. When Miller was 35 years old, he and his family moved to barbizon village near Fontainebleau, a suburb of Paris. In barbizon Village, he met many famous painters, such as Crowe, Rousseau and Trang. Miller lived in this poor and isolated village for 27 years. Miller has a deep affection for nature and country life. He got up early, and it was already dark. He works in the field in the morning and paints in a dark room in the afternoon. His life is very hard, but this does not affect his love and pursuit of art, because he has no money to buy pigments, and he often makes charcoal strips and sketches himself.
Miller loves life, labor and farmers. He once said: "In any case, the theme of farmers suits me best." Thus formed the "barbizon School" with Diaz, Rousseau, Kulo and Miller as the main members, which enjoyed a high reputation in the history of European art, and the next 27 years were also the richest period in Miller's life. During this period, Miller created many famous works well known to the French people, such as The Sower, The Shepherd Girl, gleaner and many other excellent works, all of which were completed here. Miller never invented the scene of this painting. Each of his paintings comes from the real life of French farmers, who work, graze, work and live.
Miller's works
Jean-Francois Miller is the most popular peasant painter in the history of modern French painting. Miller won the love of many people, especially French farmers, for his simple and friendly art. He created many works in his life and left great cultural wealth for later generations.
Miller's Works: The Sower
Among Miller's many works, The Sower is now in the Boston Art Museum. This job makes the old man feel uneasy. They saw the image of the street people in Paris during the June Revolution in the rhythmic movement of the sowers. Miller has never painted a scene of peasant resistance, which is related to his gentle humanistic spirit. But he gives the impression that he is working hard, working hard and working hard. This is actually a protest against the upper class, although the protest is relatively mild.
Another work of Mueller, Shepherdess, is an oil painting, which is collected by Othello Art Museum in Paris. In this painting, Miller captures a very lyrical scene in the shepherd's life: on the high horizon, the shepherd is wearing an old felt shawl and a red scarf, alone with the sheep. Some people say that the pious shepherdess is Miller, or the spiritual embodiment of Miller, and the author's love for the earth and nature runs through his life. He made shepherdess feel the pain of poor workers by praying in the wilderness, so he created this painting with sympathy and pity. Miller, a farmer painter, has observed that farmers struggle for survival in strict labor since childhood. Therefore, when he looked at nature, he did not ignore the combination of man and the earth in nature.
Miller's Painting Style
Jean-Francois Miller was born in the village of Gruch in Normandy Peninsula. Famous French painter, realistic painter in barbizon school. His paintings are widely known in France, especially among French farmers. What is Miller's painting style?
Miller's work "Farmers Grafting Trees"
Miller's painting style is based on describing the work and life of farmers. He observes nature with fresh eyes and has a strong flavor of rural life. Miller's paintings are original in both material and expression. He objectively and truly reflected the life of rural farmers in France from 1940s to 1960s. He expressed the farmers' love for the land with the most sincere feelings, and also expressed the joys and sorrows of the working people for thousands of years. Miller perfectly expressed the theme of "farmers" in the form of oil painting.
Miller comes from a peasant family. He worked as a farmer when he was young, so he also had a deep understanding of peasant life and expressed his love for the land. When his life was blocked, he once painted vulgar paintings, but he was laughed at, so he decided not to cater to anyone and decided to take his own artistic path. So he embarked on this painting road with the theme of peasant life.
Romain rolland once said in the book Miller's Biography, "Miller, the master of classicism, devoted all his spirit to eternal significance, not the present. No painter has ever brought such magnificent and great feelings and expressions to the land where everything belongs like him. " . It can be seen that Miller's painting style is very successful.