Vincent van Gogh - the potato eaters

Van Gogh saw the potato eaters as a paradise for which he deliberately chose a difficult composition to prove that he was on the way to becoming a good figure painter. The painting should represent the hard reality of country life, so he gave the farmers rough faces and bony, working hands. It is one of the most famous works by Van Goghs.

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