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Van Gogh's Potato Eaters. chá ou café?

"And when I tell you that just now I am quite absorbed again in two new large studies of weavers’ interiors, you will understand that I am in no mood for it. Especially as it might cause new disagreements if I applied again to the gentlemen in The Hague. As to these two pictures of weavers, one shows a part of the loom with the figure and a small window. The other one is an interior, with three small windows, looking out on the yellowish greenery, contrasting with the blue of the cloth that is being woven on the loom and with the blouse of the weaver, which is again of another blue. But I have not yet started what struck me most in nature recently, for want of a good model. The half-ripe cornfields are at present of a dark golden tone, ruddy or gold bronze. This is raised to a maximum of effect by the contrast with the broken cobalt tone of the sky. Imagine in such a background women’s figures, very rough, very energetic, with sun-bronzed faces and arms and feet, with dusty, coarse indigo clothes and a black bonnet in the form of a barret on their short-cut hair"(...) tantas cartas para ler.