The Artist Project: Xu Bing

Artist Xu Bing reflects on Jean-François Millet's Haystacks: Autumn in this episode of The Artist Project.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"I like those landscapes that people have in their everyday life but don't take notice of, but have the traces of human activity and human life."

Artist Xu Bing on Jean-François Millet's "Haystacks: Autumn" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Xu Bing, born in 1955, is a Chinese printmaker and installation artist.

Xu Bing (Chinese, born 1955)

Book from the Sky (Tianshu), ca. 1987–91

Box set of four hand-printed books with thread binding, ink on paper plus wood box; books (each): 18 1/16 × 11 3/4 in. (45.9 × 29.9 cm), box: 19 1/4 × 13 1/16 × 4 in. (48.9 × 33.2 × 10.2 cm). Princeton University Art Museum, Purchase of the East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University Art Museum, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art (2002-281.1-.5). Photo: Princeton Art Museum / Art Resource, New York © 1991, Xu Bing.


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Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys, Jean-François Millet  French, Oil on canvas
Jean-François Millet
1872–73
Calling the Cows Home, Jean-François Millet  French, Oil on wood
Jean-François Millet
ca. 1872
Haystacks: Autumn, Jean-François Millet  French, Oil on canvas
Jean-François Millet
ca. 1874