这幅画《人生第一步 (摹米勒作品)》，据考证，凡高并不是根据米勒1858年的粉彩画原作（现藏于密西西比州劳雷尔劳伦·罗杰斯艺术博物馆 ，见下图）创作的，而是临摹自一张正方形的照片。

　　这幅作品描绘的是一幕亲密的家庭劳动的场面，背景舞台则是不大不小的夏日花园。画中，一树繁花和长满鲜嫩蔬菜的花园展示了乡村的富饶多产，并与赞颂生命的主题交相辉映，满怀深情地赞颂了始于劳动的“人生第一步”！

　In fall and winter 1889–90, while a voluntary patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted twenty-one copies after Millet, an artist he greatly admired. He considered his copies "translations" akin to a musician's interpretation of a composer's work. He let the black-and-white images—whether prints, reproductions, or, as here, a photograph that his brother, Theo, had sent—pose "as a subject," then he would "improvise color on it." For this work of January 1890, Van Gogh squared-up a photograph of Millet's First Steps and transferred it to the canvas.

 

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