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Still life with cabbage and wooden shoes by Vincent Van Gogh

Still life with cabbage and wooden shoes by Vincent Van Gogh

In 1881, Van Gogh began to take lessons from one of the best Hague artists Anton Muave. At that time, the method of teaching painting was based on the fact that at first the novice artist wrote only copies of the works of the masters.

But Muave withdrew from this rule, immediately allowing Vincent to paint still lifes with oil. The young artist was delighted, because before that he did only drawings. In October of the same year, the teacher even gave him a set of oil paints, a palette, brushes and everything necessary for painting.

One of the first productions was a composition with a pair of shoes, red and white cabbage and potatoes. The purpose of writing this still life was to learn the technique of applying paint, and also to convey the unique texture of each object.

Van Gogh perfectly coped with the task, carefully writing out the soft leaves of cabbage with veins, showing the materiality of the wooden surface of the table and shoes. Cabbage he made the semantic center of the composition, singling it out with a spot of whole light on a practically black background. All other items remained in the penumbra, without losing their significance in the overall composition of the still life. All this makes one of the artist’s earliest works very harmonious and integral.

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