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luglio 08, 2021 - Vangogh Museum
Announcement of autumn exhibition 2021: 'The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece?'
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- This autumn, the #vangoghmuseum will present The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece? – an ode to the painting of the same name by #vincentvangogh.
- The exhibition will focus on the background to the work's creation, the artist's dedication and perseverance, the significance that the painting held for him and the fierce criticism it attracted.
- A selection of paintings, drawings, sketches and letters by #vincentvangogh and works by contemporaries and sources of inspiration like Jozef Israëls and Anthon van Rappard tell the full story behind The Potato Eaters.
- Visitors can get even closer to the painting in the Potato Eaters Studio – a full-sized model of the cottage of the De Groot-van Rooij family as featured in The Potato Eaters, in which workshops and other activities will be organized.
- The exhibition opens to the public on Friday 8 October 2021 and will run until 13 February 2022.
Beginning on 8 October 2021, the #vangoghmuseum is presenting the exhibition The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece? – an ode to the work which #vincentvangogh painted in the Brabant village of Nuenen in 1885. Although the painting is now one of the highlights of the Van Gogh Museum's collection, it was by no means viewed that way by everyone at the time. The exhibition invites visitors to form their own opinion of what Van Gogh then viewed as the best work he produced so far.
First masterpiece...
Although he never explicitly used the word in his letters, Van Gogh only considered four of his paintings to be 'masterpieces': The Bedroom (1888), Sunflowers (1888) and Augustine Roulin (La berceuse) (1888–89), but also The Potato Eaters (1885), which he spent months preparing to paint. Having drawn and painted for several years by then, he viewed the canvas as his first 'masterwork' – a demonstration of his newly acquired skills. He hoped the challenging group composition would provide his entrée into the Paris art market. Van Gogh decided to depict a peasant meal, a popular theme at the time. In choosing it, he followed in the footsteps of role models and contemporaries including Joseph Israëls and Charles Degroux.
...or mistake?
Van Gogh wanted The Potato Eaters to be a symbol of honest, unidealized rural life – something that was not yet common in painting. The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece offers an insight into the genesis of the painting and what Van Gogh hoped to achieve with it. For all his ambition, however, the success he hoped for failed to materialize: the painting was received critically by dealers, artists and his brother alike. The Potato Eaters never featured in an exhibition and ended up hanging unsold above the fireplace in Theo's apartment in Paris. All the same, Van Gogh did not admit defeat: he stuck to his career and continued to develop as an artist.
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