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Millet

Millet

Turner, Percy Mooer
Gioffredi, Michael W.

Paperback

Art HistoryEuropean ArtGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1077873166
ISBN13: 9781077873162
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 4 2019
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

An essay about the painter Jean-François Millet.

Excerpt from the book: Amongst the great painters of peasant life the name of Jean François Millet stands out prominently. Millet is an instance of an artist working out his own destiny, impelled by irresistible genius, in the teeth of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. He started life with enormous disadvantages; without friends in influential circles to spread his fame or plead his cause; without money to enable him to outlive and triumph over the ignorant fanaticism of critics and artists, so soaked in the conventionalised art of their time that they had not perception enough to appreciate the full meaning of that naturalistic movement, which was finally to sweep away the quasi-classic art they boasted of with such bombastic effusion. The path was hard and thorny, and his triumph was not finally consummated until after his death. He himself found his only satisfaction in the fact that he had lived his life according to the dictates of his genius, and had achieved the maximum of which he was capable.

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