It is a good way to remember the definition.
The Potato Eaters painting was done long after the famine and it was done in the Netherlands, not Ireland anyway. It's the only painting that Van Gogh did that he really liked, but nobody else liked it. He tried to defend it to his critics by saying that he wanted to depict the peasants as they really were because they had tilled the soil with their own hands and were eating the food that they had grown on their own. He admired gardeners, said they were the most honest of people because they provided for themselves and depended on no one else.
I know, Zuzu, it has nothing to do with the famine. But to me I connected the two. Obviously I was more concerned about Van Gogh than I was about the famine.
Till now.
Weird as he was, there were some admirable things about Van Gogh.
I don't like that painting much either, but I always remembered it.
TMI I'm sure.
