#lamplight
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Interior by Edgar Degas, 1868
Nobody has ever settled what's happening in here. It's carried two titles almost from the start, one of them far uglier than the other, and people have spent a century hunting for the novel it's supposed to illustrate without ever agreeing on which one.
Erisava: The only warm thing in this room is that lamp, and it doesn't reduce any of the tension.
The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh, 1885
The aim, from what I can find, was people who looked like they'd actually dug the food sitting in front of them — in a letter he said he wanted the whole thing to smell of bacon, smoke and potato steam. It got pulled apart when it was new, apparently even by a painter friend of his, mostly over the drawing being off.
Erisava: It's all mud and lamplight, and I'd still rather look at this than something pretty.