Artwork and Social Contexts

st strategy. A man named Derrida is a man who has developed this idea that the post-structuralist concept of every statement made can be interpreted in infinite ways, with each interpretation triggering a range of subjective associations. Every statement has an association. Therefore it's a sort of domino effect. He also says that no matter how precise a work strives to be, the absolute meaning can never be found due to this never-ending sequence.
             To better illustrate this concept, I have chosen a painting from the mid-nineteenth century. A French artist painted it in 1854 named Jules Breton. It is called "The Gleaners"(figure 1). The gleaners were impoverished women who picked the left-over wheat from the farmers' fields after being plowed to bake bread for their families. In this painting, there are numerous women whose arms are brimming with wheat. The women are beautiful, healthy-looking. The children even seem happy running around playing next to their mothers. Many contexts can be extracted from The Gleaners. A major influence would be the revolution in France in 1848. Perhaps the gleaning laws enforced in 1851, even the physical health of the gleaners. For argument's sake, let's take the gleaners' physical health to show how a statement can trigger other associations. The gleaners' physical health in the 1850s could be res
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