世凡高回到父亲供职的教堂所在地纽南。在纽南的两年时间里,凡高苦练素描技巧。在画了大量素描写生和习作后,他完成了第一幅著名作品(所谓的著名都是后人评价的结果,当时的凡高只是个待业青年)-《吃土豆的人》。这幅作品和他这一时期的很多作品都受荷兰现实主义画风的影响,画面深沉,有极强的乡土气息。这也表现出凡高很强的农民情结,他似乎很想成为一位农民画家。一方面,他受到“精神导师”米勒的影响,更重要的可能是内心深处对乡间生活的向往,对淳朴农民的尊敬和对诚实劳动的赞美。 Sevan van Gogh back to his father’s job is located in Newnan Church. In Newnan’s two years, Van Gogh practiced sketching skills. After drawing a large number of sketches and exercises, he completed his first famous work (the so-called famous are the result of posterity evaluation, then Van Gogh is just a unemployed youth) - “people who eat potatoes.” This piece and many of his works of this period are influenced by Dutch realism, with deep images and strong local flavor. It also shows the Van Gogh peasant complex, he seems to want to become a peasant painter. On the one hand, he is influenced by the “mentor” Miller. What is more important may be the deepening yearning for rural life, the respect for honest peasants and the praise for honest work.