The creative background of Van Gogh's farm shoes

1935 Heidegger discussed the usefulness of utensils through the pair of shoes in the article "The Origin of Works of Art". He believed that once the utensils were framed by the artistic framework, they would show different meanings from ordinary use on weekdays. The shoes in the painting represent the call of the field and the earth and are protected in the farmer's world. Therefore, it has changed from ordinary shoes to works of art that can show endless poetry.

Van Gogh's Farmers' Shoes embodies the hardships of labor, which comes from the dark exposure inside wearing old shoes. In this pair of hard, heavy and broken farm shoes, there are the tenacity and slowness of those steps moving on the endless and monotonous ridge in the cold wind. Wet and fertile soil is stuck to the shoes. When dusk falls, these soles walk alone on the field path. In this shoe, the silent call of the earth echoes, showing off the quiet gift of the earth to mature grains, and symbolizing that the earth is hazy in the barren fields in winter leisure. This pair of utensils is saturated with anxiety about bread stability and silent joy of overcoming poverty, implying trembling in labor pains and trembling when death approaches.