tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post7826893041310383127..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Amita Sarjit Ahluwalia writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-29105457424081870272020-04-08T19:16:12.760-07:002020-04-08T19:16:12.760-07:00Abendessen is a light evening meal; Kartoffelsalat...Abendessen is a light evening meal; Kartoffelsalat is potato salad. Aloo chokha is an Indian side dish made from mashed potatoes garnished with onion, green chilies, coriander leaves, garlic, mustard oil, and lemon juice.<br /><br />The original oil sketch of "De Aardappeleters" is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, a small Dutch village in the province of Gelderland. Van Gogh worked on it from March to April 1885. He told his brother Theo "I really have wanted to make it so that people get the idea that these folk, who are eating their potatoes by the light of their little lamp, have tilled the earth themselves with these hands they are putting in the dish, and so it speaks of manual labor and — that they have thus honestly earned their food. I wanted it to give the idea of a wholly different way of life from ours — civilized people. So I certainly don’t want everyone just to admire it or approve of it without knowing why." His friend and mentor Anthon van Rappard criticized it, causing van Gogh to respond "I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it." Two years later he told his sister that it was "the best thing I did." In Decenber 1888 he was hospitalized after cutting off his left ear with a razor, wrapping it in paper, and delivering it to a prostitute.DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com