Church Times - Art review: Millet: Life on the Land (National Gallery)

My latest exhibition review for Church Times is on Millet: Life on the Land at the National Gallery and includes reflection on the artist’s attitude to the poor:

'Simon Kelly notes in the catalogue that “Millet’s interest in religion has been marginalised in modernist readings of his avant-garde practice.” Though Millet was not a churchgoer in later life, Kelly writes that, when asked if he still read the Bible and the Psalms, Millet responded: “They are my breviary. . . It is there I find all that I paint.” The bias to the poor, which is found in the counter-testimony of the Old Testament, is the beating heart of Millet’s work.'

See also my Artlyst review on this same exhibition by clicking here.

Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Artlyst are here, those for Seen & Unseen are here, and those for Art+Christianity are here.

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