Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/04/2016
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DU BENGALE
Categories
The Alliance française du Bengale invits you to a presentation commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of the great painter François Millet :
‘Millet: Realism and beyond’
by Subrata Ghosh
Visual Artist
HOD Art & Design, Calcutta International School
Cultural Secretary, INFAC
Secretary, Calcutta Painters
An important figure in French painting of the mid-19th century, the artist Jean-Francois Millet was a founding member of the Barbizon landscape school in France and is best known for his genre-painting and landscape painting – mainly featuring the back-breaking rural life of the French peasantry. His style can be categorized as both Naturalism and religious realism. His most notable paintings include The Angelus (1858, Musee d’Orsay), The Gleaners (1857, Musee d’Orsay), The Sower (1850, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), and the arresting Man with a Hoe (1860, J Paul Getty Museum, LA).
