Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Autumn Leaves (1856) is a painting by John Everett Millais exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. It was described by the critic John Ruskin as \"the first instance of a perfectly painted twilight.\" Millais' wife Effie wrote that he had intended to create a picture that was \"full of beauty and without a subject\".The picture depicts four girls in the twilight collecting and raking together fallen leaves in a garden. They are making a bonfire, but the fire itself is invisible, only smoke emerging from between the leaves. The two girls on the left, modelled on Millais' sisters-in-law Alice and Sophy Gray, are portrayed in middle-class clothing of the era; the two on the right are in rougher, working class clothing.The painting has been seen as one of the earliest influences on the development of the aesthetic movement."@en }
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- Autumn_Leaves_(painting) abstract "Autumn Leaves (1856) is a painting by John Everett Millais exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. It was described by the critic John Ruskin as \"the first instance of a perfectly painted twilight.\" Millais' wife Effie wrote that he had intended to create a picture that was \"full of beauty and without a subject\".The picture depicts four girls in the twilight collecting and raking together fallen leaves in a garden. They are making a bonfire, but the fire itself is invisible, only smoke emerging from between the leaves. The two girls on the left, modelled on Millais' sisters-in-law Alice and Sophy Gray, are portrayed in middle-class clothing of the era; the two on the right are in rougher, working class clothing.The painting has been seen as one of the earliest influences on the development of the aesthetic movement.".