The painting had to depict the harsh reality of country life, so he gave the peasants coarse faces and bony, working hands. He wanted to show in this way that ...

The Potato Eaters (Dutch: De Aardappeleters) is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh painted in April 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands.

The painting that was completed consisted of 5 figures sitting around a square table eating potatoes; four of them are females and one male. Although the piece ...

Oct 7, 2021 · In 1885, after months of work and meticulous preparation, Vincent van Gogh completed The Potato Eaters, a dark-toned, dynamic portrait of a ...

Oct 8, 2021 · When you look at The Potato Eaters, the painting seems to be made up mostly of grey-brown-greenish colours. Slightly muddy tones, all more ...

The Potato Eaters was a synthesis of countless studies of peasants' heads, of people absorbed in work and handicrafts, which van Gogh painted that winter in the ...

The Potato Eaters (1885) was Vincent Van Gogh's first masterpiece. His portrayal of a family sitting around a table sharing a simple meal of potatoes has become ...

The potato eaters is the most ambitious painting of Van Gogh's Dutch period. Prior to starting the painting, he makes over a hundred portrait studies of ...

Like the French master Jean-François Millet, Van Gogh wanted to be a true “peasant painter.” This meant Van Gogh tried to paint his subjects with deep feeling, ...

The series on the Potato Eaters, executed in Nuenen in spring 1885, is one of the most significant of Vincent van Gogh's first period.