Identify the painting and the painter . What Russian legal connection does the painting have ?
The Gleaners by Jean-Francois Millet.
In the erstwhile Soviet Union , peasants caught gleaning (hand-collecting the leftovers of grains or ’spikelets’ ) in the collective fields after the harvest were arrested for ”damaging the state grain production” and this gave rise to the Law of Spikelets.
Part 1 cracked by Rithwik , Gokul , Deepthi Mani , Arun Hiregange , Anubhav Bhattacharjee , Hadi , Freestyler , Ajit Prabhakar and Anil Raghavan . Only Freestyler got Part 2 correct.
Jean Francois Millet’s famous 1857 painting, The Gleaners
which inspired the company Gleaner Manufacturing Company which made the first self-propelled combine harvesters.
The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet
the gleaners/Millet
The Gleaners by Jean-Francois Millet.
The Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet
- the painting glorifies the poor working class and was seen to support the ideas of Marx when it was unveiled – but other than that not sure of the “Russian legal connect”
The gleaners- Jean-François Millet
The Gleaners by Jean Francoise Millet.
Gleaning was criminalised in the Soviet Union.
GLEANERS by JEAN MILLET.
gleaners by millet