The Rural Life in Painting Art: Jean-Francois Millet

The Rural Life in Painting Art: Jean-Francois Millet

1. The School of Barbizon

Colony artistic - movement created in the homonym village, which was located just outside Paris, from fed up painters with the prevailing academic painting of the first half of the 19th century, which was unable to express aesthetically the shocking changes taking place these times in French. A prominent form and a co-founder of this school was Jean-Francois Millet.

2. The Painter

2.1. Breaking new artistic ground as rapporteur of the realism, focused the theme of the narration of rural life, the narrative of the life of French peasants of his time, and not with the eyes of a genre painting but with the look of a pioneer that combine landscape and people in one indissoluble, even organic, coherent lattice. If the products of academicism smelled mold, the paintings of Millet was rising and emit fresh cultivated soil.

2.2. Son of Normans peasant, born in 1814 in Greville. Without avoid farm work, soon showed his inclination to painting. After the first courses took Cherbourg by Paul Dumouchel, and two years he spent with his teacher Lucien-Theophile Langlois, received a scholarship and moved to Paris, where in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts studied alongside Paul Delaroche. In 1849 he settled in Barbizon which did not leave until the end of his life, in 1875. He left behind nine children and more than two hundred paintings. He left behind a great value timeless work able to inspire and excite the universal man.

3. Paintings