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The Gleaners ( Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857 . It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; it was received poorly by the French upper classes.
The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet, 1857. Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. It is a practice described in the Hebrew Bible that became a legally enforced entitlement of the poor in a number of ...
The Angelus. The Angelus ( French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859. The painting depicts two peasants bowing in a field over a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus, that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day's ...
The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, lit. "The gleaners and the female gleaner") is a 2000 French documentary film by Agnès Varda that features various kinds of gleaning . It screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival ("Official Selection 2000"), and later went on to win awards around the world.
Through “The Gleaners and I,” students at participating universities will be able to re-edit and completely rethink Varda’s 2000 documentary of the same name — pooling from 62 hours of ...
The Gleaners (French: Les Glaneurs) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Jules Breton, from 1854. The painting depicts an idealized version of peasant life. The painting depicts an idealized version of peasant life.
Children. Rosalie Varda. Mathieu Demy. Agnès Varda ( French: [aɲɛs vaʁda] ⓘ; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist with French and Greek origins. [1] Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it ...
The Song of the Lark, oil on canvas, 1884, Art Institute of Chicago. Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton ( French pronunciation: [ʒyl adɔlf ɛme lwi bʁətɔ̃]; 1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of ...