The Potato Eaters

Vincent Van Gogh painted "The Potato Eaters" in 1885. This painting is one of his famous paintings in the world.
The painting is about a family dinner. There is a small dining room. An oil lamp is lighted in it. And a family is taking dinner together. It is an ordinary scene but the creative features painted in it are the reflections of their lives.
This painting is saturated with morose and silent characters. The mixed emotions residing in their faces are interpreting about the poverty of a family.
The poverty in a family is the state of being unable to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. Those living in poverty suffer lower life expectancy, disproportionately from hunger or even starvation and disease. The effects of poverty create a poverty cycle running across multiple levels, individual, local, national and global.
Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in society. It means not having enough to feed and clothe a family, not having a school or clinic to go to; not having the land on which to grow one’s food or a job to earn one’s living, not having access to credit. It means insecurity, powerlessness and exclusion of individuals, households and communities. It means susceptibility to violence, and it often implies living in marginal or fragile environments, without access to clean water or sanitation. — United Nations
Various poverty reduction strategies are based on whether they make more of the basic human needs available or increase the disposable income needed to purchase those needs. Some basic needs, such as improving access to education, may also help increase income.
The key message I got from this painting is that poverty is considered a necessary or desirable condition, which be embraced to reach certain spiritual, moral, or intellectual states. Furthermore, poverty is often understood to be an essential element of renunciation in our Buddhist religion.