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Miller (1814-1875) is an outstanding French realistic painter and an outstanding representative of barbizon school. He was born in a peasant family in Normandy and lived a poor life all his life. 1837, Delserre Fort City Council funded him to go to Paris to study painting. 1848 after the February revolution, I accepted the state order for the first time. 1849 settled in barbizon village, a suburb of Paris, where he established sincere friendship with Rosso. Describe farmers with a lifetime of affection. He lived in barbizon for 27 years and created many immortal masterpieces. Miller heard a dying deer whining in Fontainebleau forest before he died. He said, "The poor animal is calling me. I should go! " "

"Gleaning" Miller French Miller is mainly influenced by Michelangelo and Pu Sang in artistic origin, and his painting style is simple and dignified. The image is solemn and unforgettable. His artistic language is very calm, rich and harmonious, with an endless and silent artistic conception. It profoundly expresses the inner spirit of man and nature. His masterpieces include The Sower, gleaner, The Late Bell, Feeding the Birds, Leaning on the Hoe, Shepherdess and so on.

Gleaning is one of Miller's most famous masterpieces, which depicts three poor peasant women bending down to pick up the ears of wheat in a harvested field. The painters didn't make any beautification, and we couldn't even see their faces hanging on the ground. However, the sacredness of labor and the spirit of land to the tiller have always been the best praise for workers. It is precisely because of this that the public was surprised to discover the greatness of ordinary labor for the first time. This is why "on the horizon behind gleaner, there seems to be a rebel spear and guillotine in 1793.

Miller's The Late Bell is the most popular work of art in the world. In the boundless twilight, the peasant couple who bowed their heads and prayed, with the bells of the distant church, caused many feelings and associations! Are they celebrating the birth of a baby? Or wish a happy marriage ... Miller's immortal work expresses a melancholy poem when the dispute between man and land tends to be calm, and expresses the solemnity and greatness of lonely prayer in the vast and barren Yuan Ye at dusk.

Miller is a master who eulogizes farmers' life enthusiastically. As a painter of peasant customs, no one can compare with Miller in the history of European art.