Millais’s wife said that his aim in this painting was to create a piece “full of beauty and without a subject” making it art for art’s sake. “Autumn Leaves” is seen as a pivotal painting marking the beginning of the aesthetic art movement. In the background, the twilight sky illuminates the upper half of the painting, silhouetting poplar trees against an orange and yellow sky. The faintest beginnings of blue and gray smoke can be seen in the lower left as the bonfire begins to smolder. All appear melancholy and somber as they continue their task of building the bonfire leaf pile. The older one is holding a rake, while the youngest holds an apple with a bite taken from it. The two girls on the right are looking away from the viewer. They are in dark green and have their long hair loose. The two girls on the left stare at the viewer as they add leaves to the pile. In true Pre-Raphaelite fashion, the leaves are in extreme detail, directing the viewer’s gaze from the bottom of the canvas, at the leaves, up centrally towards the girls. In this piece, Millais depicts four young girls standing around a pile of autumn leaves as they build a bonfire. He painted this in his own garden in Perth, Scotland shortly after returning from his honeymoon with his new wife, Effie. “Autumn Leaves” is a lovely oil on canvas painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist, John Everett Millais, from 1856. Today, I am sharing a piece by the immensely talented John Everett Millais. You can stretch and frame your painting in your local frame-shop.“Autumn Leaves”, John Everett Millais, 1856, oil on canvas. Painting reproduction is a high quality expensive product, which we cannot risk to damage by sending it being stretched.Īlso, there are postal restrictions, regarding the size of the shipment.Īdditionally, due to the dimensions of the stretched canvas, the shipment price may exceed the price of the product itself.

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Autumn leaves painting