Way to work

ID: #1890 | Realism | People

Date: 1851
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, Scotland
Dimensions: 55.5 x 46

The painting depicts two figures, a man and a woman, in historical clothing, walking along a dirt road. The woman is dressed in a long white dress with a scarf around her head, while the man is wearing a blue dress, hat and sandals, and appears to be pointing or gesturing. Both are wearing clothing that suggests they may be of a lower social class or on the move. The lighting and style of painting may be a 19th century work. The background is a vaguely depicted landscape.

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Millet painted picture Way to work in 1851. Prevailing color of this fine art print is vivid and its shape is portrait. Original size is 55.5 x 46. This art piece is located in Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, Scotland. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875). At the outset of his career, he refused the stereotyped concept of painting and became a free portrait painter. He influenced Impressionists through his selection of topics: he painted simple people, poor farmers and the humility of hardworking people. He loved the countryside where he lived, devoted a lot of energy for rural people. Millet’s paintings are characterized by an interesting, gold and melancholy light that gives his landscapes a religious character. The Angelus - church bells in the distance strike as two people say a prayer of thanks for the harvest (ironically, the Louvre auctioned this painting for an astronomical sum). Gleaners. The monumentality of characters achieved through simplification of the environment (which was later used by Seurat) is clamped from above by the horizon. The image probably expresses the oppression of peasants (especially women without voting rights) after 1848.