Tuesday 29 May 2012

Gathering Olives, Boissonas, Atkinson (1911), Axiotis


Look again: it could be Corfu, but it's Crete (Preveli, 1911).
Can one tell from the women's clothing?
 Compare the Boissonnas photograph with Sophie Atkinson's painting of olive-gathering in Corfu
 at around the same period, from "An Artist in Corfu" (1911).


Neither image makes olive-gathering look like the hard, back-breaking job it is in reality.


Not so bad for the man on the right! Stratis Axiotis, Liomazima


The olive harvest (Black Figure Amphora)

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