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A rather austere painting by Van Gogh a complete opposite to the colourful ones we are so used to.
He was shocked by the meager food the peasants were forced to eat and this painting was in part a social commentary, not to be taken to lightly by anyone.
“Amongst this confusion I was dismayed by a meal poor people had in a weird hut under a dim Lamp .It was ugly in a splendid way and loaded in alarming activity”
Emile Bernard
(page 14 Van Gogh by Ingo F Walter. Taschen, 2006)
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Tags: The Potato Eaters, Van Gogh
Chris Bellinger 