Abstract

SANCHEZ-FERNANDEZ, Luis V et al. «The Potato Eaters» by Vincent van Gogh, a visual example of vital shortages during the Industrial Revolution in Europe. Rev Med Cine [online]. 2023, vol.19, n.4, pp.363-371.  Epub Mar 08, 2024. ISSN 1885-5210.  https://dx.doi.org/10.14201/rmc.31629.

Vincent van Gogh's oil painting The Potato Eaters has a unique expressive richness. In turn, it represents one of the painter's concerns and that was none other than the poor living conditions of the people who lived on the lowest scale of society: farmers and the proletariat. Visual print that perfectly serves us to understand the hardness of these people condemned to stabilize in the most absolute misery due to the scarcity of remuneration of political leaders during the consolidation phase of the German Industrial Revolution and extendable to all of Europe.

Keywords : Van Gogh; potato; proletariat; industrial revolution.

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