However beautiful and religious this picture is, Hunt was not a religious man and did not agree with typological symbolism and yet he painted a picture with priests within . On the outside, this picture is obviously religious but looking closer, Hunt added numerous minor religious symbol within the painting. The first is the red cross on top of the priest’s head. Red symbolically symbolizes death and the priest represents a missionary from God; together the two symbolize Jesus Christ; the priest, as Jesus Christ, descends from the cross with his follower around him. The two boys on the side with grapes and a chalice illustrate the last supper. Grapes symbolize the blood of Christ and with the chalice, I believe that it symbolize the Eucharist. …show more content…
Through the inscriptions behind the painting, art historians assumed that Hunt created this painting spontaneously one day during his stay at his uncle farms in Ewell, Surrey . The Pre-Raphaelite idea was to paint a painting that embodied nature the way it physically and spiritually affects the artist. Because Hunt painted the painting in one day, it captured Hunt’s immediate feelings and the worker at that moment as with each new day, different emotions emerge. By painting this painting in one day, I think that Hunt was able to pour his feelings and thoughts into the work coherently. From staring at the painting myself, I feel the heat emitting from the shady yellow wheat and the dull yellow rolls of hays. The worker in the background, most like his uncle who appears to be cutting the wheat, creates a feeling of hard work because to cut that much wheat require much energy, the same amount of energy Hunt applied to this painting. The exertion of energy by the farmer entered this painting through Hunt as like the farmer, Hunt diligently completed this painting within the same day that the farmer finished cutting the rolls of