J.E. Millais's The Blind Girl (1856)

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Commentaire de peinture en anglais
Analysis of the painting The Blind Girl, John Everrett Millais.

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[...] The Blind Girl is a Pastoral painting. Two girls, sitting in a field are depicted. At first sight, it's seems to represent a bucolic and calm landscape. However, behind this peaceful painting is hiding a saddest reality: the sisters are vagrants, and the oldest is blind and wearing around her neck a sheet of paper, on which it is written "Pity the blind". Thus, John Everett Millais, with his painting, deals with a social problem of the Victorian era. This avant-garde painting is overall, politically protesting. [...]

[...] Conclusion: Across this painting, Millais decides to show the reality of the poor people. It's a pastoral satire. He criticizes the Victorian society by depicting its wrong side. Poor children are put aside. This painting has a teaching role. Other artists like Charles Dicken, with Oliver Twist showed squalid rough area of the Victorian area and its cruelty. Indeed, Oliver Twist was destined to draw the public attention on the contemporary's pains. Victor Hugo, writer of the 19th century rose up as well against children's conditions in Les Misérables. [...]