The still life of “Boots” Van Gogh wrote in 1887 in Paris. In addition to this picture, he created five more similar images of old shoes. Together, these works amounted to a whole series.
The composition of the picture is extremely simple. Vag Gog depicted a pair of worn out shoes, placing them in the center of the canvas on a blue background. Apparently, the shoes belong to the working man. One boot, as if quickly dropped from a tired leg, turned upside down. The artist carefully and truthfully depicts shoes that have lost their form, her worn out soles, worn out coarse shoelaces.
Coloring paintings based on a combination of red-brown, dark blue and black. Despite its compositional simplicity and lack of plot, the canvas looks very harmonious.
Why did Van Gogh depict shoes? This issue is still open to art historians. Perhaps he wanted to show that to achieve the goal a person should not sparing effort to overcome obstacles and move forward. Perhaps, shabby shoes are the personification of the heavy overwork of a working man.
Or maybe the artist did not pursue a goal to say anything. Simply, like a real creator, suddenly saw some inexplicable harmony in such an ugly thing, like shabby shoes. And with ease, the master moved it to the canvas.
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