"The Potato Eaters"
Craft- The dark and thick color was used for pictorial effects as well as philosophically to say something. The picture seems dark and trolled rather than being painted. There is total union from painter and painting. Van Gogh wanted to have a painting with figures in it and he completed various sketches of it before sending reverse lithograph prints to two different art dealers. The heavy brush did its own manual labor which is the meaning that he is trying to portray in this painting.
Concept- It is a resume of everything that he had felt and thought up until this time in order to make him a revolutionary artist. Manual labor is the main meaning that these people are peasants who dig up the potatoes and then eat with the same dirty hands.
Composition- The dark colors make you ultimately begin looking at the oil lamp hanging in the middle, the next thing that I see is everyone's expressions. After that you see the hands and what they are eating and you see that their hands are dirty as they eat the potatoes. The dark overall colors really kind of depress the mood and make it more of a sad and down kind of painting, but it has a fantastic meaning to it.
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