Van Gogh's Potato Eaters and the Starry Night illustrate his transition from realism to post-impressionism.Vincent Van Gogh never gave up his style and to his intuition in his early work compared to his later work. I will discuss the comparison between The Potato Eaters and Starry Night and although there are obvious differences, you can see the core of his passion and eccentricities. Additionally, in the discussion of comparing and contrasting the two pieces, he will include his influences, color palette, humanitarian attributes, and emotional expressionism. Jean Francois Millet, who was a social realist painter who inspired Van Gogh, and studied at the Barbizon School. He painted rural life to show people stricken by poverty, capturing the life of farmers at work. Make a statement about what is happening in the world. Communicate through art to denounce the poor conditions and physical difficulties that hard-working people are enduring. It is an invitation to look into the working class environment, which is raw, real and true. This sparked controversy, due to its honest approach. Van Gogh felt inspired by this representation of the human being which lent a sentimental quality and began to draw replicas of Millet's work. He held his work in the highest regard, to the point of sainthood. This marked the beginning of his inspiration to form a personal, expressive and religious stance on his values ​​and artistic style. He has found his own process and content that will be evident in his future work. The Potato Eaters is Van Gogh's realist style in which he thought that "peasants were closer to nature than other people." This began his religious vision to capture the divinity of life. It was his first painting, depicting a scene of a family having dinner at the kitchen table. His vision of the scene was that these people worked all day, then returned home to enjoy dinner with the same hard-working hands that helped prepare the dish, thus earning them an honest, wholesome meal. Van Gogh had sympathy for the peasants and fostered his passion for humanity. He studied them relentlessly to explore their world. The color palette he chose was dark and painted in a crude, almost grungy way. It is a dimly lit kitchen area, with the tired look and feel that the dark color palette engages the viewer to feel what is going on. Also, the color that weavers weave into the cloth and different fabrics have various colors, some broken colors, grays have the most vibrant colors that balance each other in a harmonious palette from a distance.