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Books : Arts & Photography : Artists, A-Z : ( M-O ) : Millet, Jean Francois
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In The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy, David Middleton celebrates the artist Jean-François Millet’s sympathetic realism depicting the harsh life of French peasants in the nineteenth century and honoring their essential human dignity. Millet referred to some of his drawings as Epopée des champs, "the epic of the fields." Here, Middleton follows Millet, picture by picture, in taking a lowly pastoral theme and elevating it to epic and tragedy. Middleton seeks to describe Gruchy—the small Norman village near Cherbourg where Millet grew up—and explore that rural world in relation to the American South and his own career as a Louisiana poet. A deep affirmation of the agrarian way of life, Middleton’s poems are an implicit critique of the postagrarian world entering its final stages of decay.Reading The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy is like walking through a series of galleries of paintings, each poem a translation from one art form to the other.
The painting is unfinished, rightly so, For it depicts what never has an end: A fat hog on her haunches pushed and drawn Out of the barn to this small walled-in place,
Two men pulling a rope tied round the snout, And a woman coaxing, showing the beast A bucket’s tilted lip of slop and corn, November’s emblem, bleak with our bleak need.
The hog has caught the scent of other hogs On the butcher’s stained apron and she squeals So near the slaughter-board, the primal scene, The long knife and the basin for the blood.
Huddled and wrapped against a wall and cold, Two ghostly children—charcoal, not pastel— Appalled yet famished, fix on death and ham, This open abattoir, hunger’s great I AM. —"Killing the Hog, ca. 1867–70"
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Estelle May Hurll (1863-1924) was the author of The Madonna in Art (1898), Raphael (1899), Jean François Millet (1900), Michelangelo (1900), Correggio (1901), Child-Life in Art (1901), The Bible Beautiful (1908), Sir Joshua Reynolds, Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century. "In making a selection of Millet's pictures, devoted as they are to the single theme of French peasant life, variety of subject can be obtained only by showing as many phases of that life as possible. Our illustrations therefore represent both men and women working separately in the tasks peculiar to each, and working together in the labors shared between them. There are in addition a few pictures of child life. "
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Few artists of the nineteenth century created works as subtly evocative, as socially poignant, and as artistically influential as Jean-Francois Millet did. This book examines Millet's technical and creative achievement, focusing on his rarely seen pastels, watercolors, and drawings, and considering them as independent works of art, as procedural steps toward paintings, and as important elements in his finished pictures.
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Text block pristine, pages tight to spine - Text in English. 96 page monograph
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![Jean-François Millet [Au-delà de l'Angélus]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516SXCANDBL._SL160_.jpg)
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Exhibition Catalogue.
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In their images of mid-19th century France, Meryon and Millet looked to the pre-industrial sections of Paris and its environs for inspiration. The featured works by Meryon draw heavily from scenes of French city life of the period and offer architectural perspectives of Parisian landmarks, while Millet's prints are primarily rural in nature, inspired by his upbringing in the country. The publication includes a description of the etching process, reflections on Paris during the artists' lives, a catalogue of the exhibition, and analyses of several featured works.
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on April 3, 2002. The length of the article is 788 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Del gusto de los otros y vidas cruzadas.(TT: Le goût des autres and other shortcuts.)(Reseña)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: April 3, 2002
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 48 Issue: 2546 Page: 76
Article Type: Reseña
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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