让·弗朗索瓦·米勒是法国近代绘画史上最受人民爱戴的画家。米勒在巴黎贫困潦倒,穷困已压得他透不过气来。迫于生存,他用素描去换鞋子穿,用油画去换床睡觉,还曾为接生婆画招牌去换点钱。为了迎合资产者的感官刺激,他还画过庸俗低级的裸女。有一次,他听到人们议论他说:“这就是那个除了画下流裸体,别的什么也不会画的米勒。”这使他伤透了心。从此他下决心不再迎合任何人了,坚决走自己的艺术道路。但是坚持自我这条路,他走的坎坷 Jean Francois Miller is the most popular painter in the history of French modern painting. Miller impoverished in Paris, the poor have been pressured him breathless. Forced to survive, he used to change the shoes to wear a sketch, go to bed with oil paintings, but also for the midwife painted signs to change some money. In order to cater to the bourgeois sensual stimulation, he also painted vulgar low-level nudes. Once, he heard people talking about him: “This is the Miller, who draws nothing but nudity and nothing else.” It broke his heart. From then on he decided not to cater to anybody anymore, and firmly go his own artistic path. However, he insisted on this road, he went rough