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Van Gogh is my favorite artist. This is a beautiful tribute.

Unfortunately, I’m unable to credit the artist.

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The Potato Eaters | Vincent Van Gogh

(April, 1885 — Oil on canvas).

📍Nuenen, Netherlands. “The Potato Eaters” is Van Gogh’s first genuinely ambitious piece—and maybe his most heartfelt. The tired and withered faces of five peasant figures are huddled around a wooden table as they eat. They’re having potatoes for this meal, drinking from earthen cups and speaking quietly. The lamp above them casts an uneven amber glow—just enough to reveal their expressions, yet still cloaked in shadow.

It’s quiet, nearly silent. You can almost hear the automatic chewing, the clinking of the cutlery, and the sound of what seems to be coffee being poured. The figures are not beautiful in a classical sense, they’re features are exaggerated, slightly clumsy—but in an intentional manner. Van Gogh wasn’t aiming for perfection, he was reaching for something more honest, something that humanizes these peasants.

He didn’t want to paint their poverty as a tragedy, he wanted to paint it as the truth. He spent months studying the peasants of Nuenen—sketching their hands, their faces, the way they moved. Van Gogh believed that those who “have filled the earth with the same hands they are putting in the dish” had a dignity that deserved to be seen.

The colour palette is a deep and muddy—dark greens, browns and ochres—reflecting the earth they lived off of. Though it received criticism due to the colour palette being on the darker side and the figures not being the most perfect, “The Potato Eaters” remains my second favourite piece he ever made as I always spot new details when looking at it. It currently resides among other Van Gogh works at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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By far one of Van Gogh’s greatest works.

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Konstantin Korobov (Russian, 1985) - Sharks (2023)

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Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

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All the Water Lilies

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Paul Cezanne - The Pond (1877-79) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US. To see more of his paintings, click the link in bio. #paulcezanne #paulcezanneart #paulcezanneportraits #art #artistsoninstagram #artchannel #deivamedia @paul.cezanne @paulcezanneoficial @paulcezanneartlife @deivamedia