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Excerpt from The Art and Etchings of Jean-Francois Millet There was, however, more than a phonetic connec tion, for these two great contemporaries were prob ably derived - and I believe Sir John had traced it from the same Norman ancestry. Sir John was born at Southampton, but was a member of a well-known Jersey family, and Cap de la Hague, near which Millet was born, is only a few miles by sea from the Channel Islands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
"During his lifetime, the French artist Jean-Franðcois Millet (1814-1875) was frequently criticized for his peasant paintings. Traditionalists objected to his raw, radical technique and the sharp social critique they perceived in his work. Shortly after his death, however, Millet was embraced as a national hero who had captured the French countryside in all its glory. The artist's fame extended from Europe to America and Russia, and his modern style and sympathetic depiction of peasant life remained a source of inspiration until well into the twentieth century. This publication sets Millet's work in the context of the figures he inspired: artists including Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Giovanni Segantini, Winslow Homer, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kazimir Malevich, Edvard Munch, and Salvador Dalâi"--
This is a coloring book drawn from classic Impressionist art from Van Gogh to Mucha. The idea is that when you color famous art you remember the names and faces better than if you were just trying to memorize art history. This is meant to be an educational tool and a fun one. It covers a brief history of the paintings as well as the artists.