A work so striking that this first encounter with it is one that I shall never forget, it left me breathless like no other painting had ever done before, nor has one ever since. I was starring for the first time in my life, at Jules Bastien – Lepage’s, ‘The Potato Gatherers’, (1879). I turned, I saw it immediately, its impact on me was to have me draw a short, sharp breath, I had to look again, I was taken aback, my mind couldn’t quite register or believe what it was that I was seeing, I was overawed, then, just as quickly, completely amazed. The exhibition also happened to feature works by some of the artists who had influenced Van Gogh and the artistic movement to which he belonged. As I came to the end of a wall featuring Van Gogh’s works, the program invited me to turn on my left shoulder and proceed to the other side of the room. Over twenty years ago, I was spending a pleasant Sunday afternoon at the National Gallery of Victoria, slowly meandering through an exhibition of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh.
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