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Oct. 4: Jean-François Millet, Sputnik 1





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A comprehensive survey of the Barbizon school and Millet's relation to it is Robert L. Herbert, Barbizon Revisited (1962).
史書說他的素描影響更大為多名藝術家所崇敬--一些標本圖
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這是從小說Magus 引出的一小段 或許只要求讀懂第一句即可

Self-denial was incomprehensible to him, unless it formed part of some aesthetic regimen. I stood with him once and watched a line of peasants laboring a turnip field. A Millet brought to life. And his only remark was: It is beautiful that they are they and that we are we. For him even the most painful social confrontations and contrasts, which would have stabbed the conscience of even the vulgarest nouveau riche, were stingless. Without significance except as vignettes, as interesting discords, as pleasurable because vivid examples of the algedonic polarity of existence.

Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Wikipedia
Born: October 4, 1814, Gréville-Hague, France
Died: January 20, 1875, Barbizon, France
On view: National Gallery of Art, MORE
Periods: Realism, Barbizon school
Education: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Known for: Painting
Today is Jean-François Millet’s birthday. The artist, born on this day in 1814, is known for his social realist paintings. “Waiting” (1860) is on view in the Bloch Galleries.

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讓·弗朗索瓦·米勒（Jean-François Millet，1814年10月4日－1875年1月20日）法國巴比松派畫家Millet lived all year round at Barbizon。以鄉村風俗畫中感人的人性在法國畫壇聞名。習慣被稱作米勒，實際按照法語發音應翻作“米葉”。

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