Sunday, April 13, 2014

VINCENT VAN GOGH

The Potato Eaters (1885)


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No.1

Vincent Willem Van Gogh 1853-90 had at one time a serious ambition to be a great painter of peasant life, and he spent many hours in the company of miners, farmers and weavers. Referring to this painting he wrote to his brother Theo: 

I have tried to emphasise that these people eating their potatoes in the lamplight have dug the earth with those very hands they put in the dish, and so it speaks of manual labour, and how they have honestly earned their food.

Tomorrow - Unconscious Rivals, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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