. Art in France. llll; SMEIHKKUK; (Photo. Kiilin.) 398 NATURALISM. FIG. 833.—MILLET. THE ANGELUS. (The Louvre, Paris.) earth germinates, blos-soms and lies bare, andsince man hrst began tocultivate it, the toilerbending over it has usedthe same gestures, thesame processes. .Millethas rendered his attitudeso truthfully, the man isso at one with his occu-pation and surroundings,that he typifies the hus-bandman of all ages andcountries ; the poor toilersuddenly fills the universeand eternity, and his piti-ful silhouette is projected in all its immensity upon these two
. Art in France. llll; SMEIHKKUK; (Photo. Kiilin.) 398 NATURALISM. FIG. 833.—MILLET. THE ANGELUS. (The Louvre, Paris.) earth germinates, blos-soms and lies bare, andsince man hrst began tocultivate it, the toilerbending over it has usedthe same gestures, thesame processes. .Millethas rendered his attitudeso truthfully, the man isso at one with his occu-pation and surroundings,that he typifies the hus-bandman of all ages andcountries ; the poor toilersuddenly fills the universeand eternity, and his piti-ful silhouette is projected in all its immensity upon these two sensibility was his bond of union with and the Classicists dwelt in imaginary regions. The ideaswhich engrossed them were a kind of superior pastime to them;the world they painted had been fashioned by history; an ingen-ious civilisation reveals itself in every detail of their learned with Millet, as with Rembrandt, art loses its serenity and isnourished bv human sentiment, emotional meditation, melancholy,pity, a kind of communion with the
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