This is a French painting from 1857 called "The Gleaners".
It was noted at the time for glorifying the rural working class and was not well received by the upper echelons of French society who thought it might be an endorsement of socialism and that it had a revolutionary air.
Weird to think that paintings like this were probably the equivalent for their time of shows like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones that fanboys would study and deconstruct in great detail.
ITT a bunch of people who misunderstand the subject of The Gleaners. They aren't aren't slaves or working for pay, they are exercising their legal right to harvest leftover grain after the harvest. The politics are in Millet's choice of representing poverty in a painting at all.
IMO, Banksy's collage doesn't really make sense. The context is that the peasents are exercising their legal right to leftover grains as commons. So the woman is taking a smoke break to protest the socialist policy allowing her to glean?
Or is her being cut out of the painting some kind reference to Millet as exploiting his subject matter as an entitled painter? If that is the case, why choose to critique a painter who used his career to present the plight of the working class?
The_Great_Sarcasmo on September 11st, 2019 at 19:04 UTC »
This is a French painting from 1857 called "The Gleaners".
It was noted at the time for glorifying the rural working class and was not well received by the upper echelons of French society who thought it might be an endorsement of socialism and that it had a revolutionary air.
Weird to think that paintings like this were probably the equivalent for their time of shows like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones that fanboys would study and deconstruct in great detail.
jftffi on September 11st, 2019 at 20:06 UTC »
Freaking smokers always needing a break
unqualified_redditor on September 11st, 2019 at 21:13 UTC »
ITT a bunch of people who misunderstand the subject of The Gleaners. They aren't aren't slaves or working for pay, they are exercising their legal right to harvest leftover grain after the harvest. The politics are in Millet's choice of representing poverty in a painting at all.
IMO, Banksy's collage doesn't really make sense. The context is that the peasents are exercising their legal right to leftover grains as commons. So the woman is taking a smoke break to protest the socialist policy allowing her to glean?
Or is her being cut out of the painting some kind reference to Millet as exploiting his subject matter as an entitled painter? If that is the case, why choose to critique a painter who used his career to present the plight of the working class?