Painter: John Everett Millais John Everett Millais (1829.)6.8 - 1896.8.13）
Nationality: British.
Painting: Autumn Le**es Autumn leaves.
Type: Oil on canvas.
Size: 1041cm × 73.7cm
Date: 1855-1856.
Collection: Manchester Art Gallery (UK).
Autumn Leaves is a work by Millais and Efe in the garden of the Perthannate inn where they settled after their marriage on July 3, 1855. Hunter later recalled that Millais had asked, "Is there anything more beautiful than the emotion awakened by a burning leaf?" For me, those days of the past bring back fond memories for me; It was the fragrance of summer that faded from the sky. Effie describes her husband's eagerness to paint "a beautiful but unsubject painting," and he conceives images of young women burning leaves in an autumn sunset to provide a wonderful opportunity to recreate the mood of darkness and contemplation. The hues of the paintings, including the bronze and crimson of the autumn leaves, as well as the colors reflected by the campfire, are reflected in the ruddy faces of the girls, representing youth and death. The work is likewise devoid of narrative, without movement: it is static, decorative but monumental, and the whole layout symbolizes autumn itself. The place of the season in the year and its allusions to death and decay are permeated with religious and poetic connotations. Millais wrote a letter to Stephen thanking him for the excerpts he had taken from Isaiah (19.) in a review18-19) quotes a related passage: "* Burn like fire: it will devour all thorns, set the jungle alight: and then they will rise like clouds of smoke." Stephen appreciates that the painting is more than just a genre painting of a woman in a garden, and Millais is delighted to say: "I feel insulted when people think that this painting is just a record of simple family events for the sake of effect and color, because I want to evoke the deepest religious introspection with the solemn atmosphere of this work." The only real symbol in the painting is the apple in the hand of the youngest girl on the right, alluding to Eve's ** and fall towards Adam. But the apples did ripen in early autumn, and the effect of the work was not in the interpretation of these images, but in the coloring and mood of the images in the style of Tennyson.
Pre-Raphaelite