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Autumn Leaves, by Sir
John Everett Millais, 1856
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I’m in Maine for my last 2013 painting workshop! The frost
isn’t quite on the pumpkin (at least not in Rockland or Rochester) but autumn is
in the air. I’m leaving some wonderful fall landscapes for you.
Sir John Everett Millais was an English painter and
illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
However, as he matured as an artist, he left the rigid constraints and
intellectual conceits of that movement behind, much to the critics’ dismay (and
our benefit).
Millais may have been making a comment about the social
divide between the two girls in middle-class clothing (modeled after his
sisters-in-law) and the two working-class girls—or he may have felt that
putting two girls in black on the edge of the canvas would overbalance his
composition. Likewise, the little girl’s apple may be a comment on original
sin, or it may be just an apple.
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A Waterfall in Glenfinlas, by Sir John Everett Millais, 1853
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Let me know if you’re interested in painting with me in Maine in
2014. Click here for
more information on my Maine workshops!
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