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The Potato Eaters (Dutch: De Aardappeleters) is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh painted in April 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands. [ 1 ] It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The Potato Eaters (Dutch: De Aardappeleters) is a painting by Van Gogh which he painted in April 1885 while in Nuenen, Netherlands. It is housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam . The version at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo is a preliminary oil sketch; he also made a version as a lithograph.
The Potato Eaters: April 1885 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Nuenen 82 x 114 cm F 82 JH 764 Head of a Woman: May 1885 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Nuenen 43.8 x 30 cm F 69 JH 724 Head of a Woman: May 1885 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Nuenen 42.2 x 34.5 cm F 269r JH 725 Old Church Tower at Nuenen ('The Peasants' Churchyard') May 1885 Van Gogh Museum ...
Theo criticised The Potato Eaters for its dark palette, which he thought unsuitable for a modern style. [222] During Van Gogh's stay in Paris between 1886 and 1887, he tried to master a new, lighter palette. His Portrait of Père Tanguy (1887) shows his success with the brighter palette and is evidence of an evolving personal style. [223]
This struggle culminated with his painting The Potato Eaters. His friend and mentor Van Rappard disliked the painting. Undeterred, van Gogh moved south, via Antwerp and Paris. His letters from Arles describe his utopian dream of establishing a community of artists who lived together, worked together, and helped each other. In this project he ...
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The Lumper potato, widely cultivated in western and southern Ireland before and during the Great Famine, was bland, wet, and poorly resistant to the potato blight, but yielded large crops and usually provided adequate calories for peasants and laborers. Heavy dependence on this potato led to disaster when the blight quickly turned harvest-ready ...