Irises is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1889, the work is a landscape with a cropped composition and is one of several hundred paintings from a series of paintings that van Gogh made at the Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum in …

In May 1890, just before he checked himself out of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted four exuberant bouquets of spring flowers, the only still lifes of any ambition he had undertaken during his yearlong stay: two of irises, two of roses, in contrasting color schemes and formats.

By placing the purple flowers against a yellow background, he made the decorative forms stand out even more strongly. The irises were originally purple. But as the red pigment has faded, they have turned blue. Van Gogh made two paintings of this bouquet. In the other still life, he contrasted purple and pink with green.

Irises are perhaps the first subject he did in the asylum. It preceded his first attack there and at first glance shows no evident trace of the moodiness and high tension that appear in many of the later works. He paints the flowers with admiration and joy.

2022年11月17日 · Irises (1889) was part of a series of iris flower paintings by the world-renowned and loved Post-Impressionist artist, Vincent van Gogh. This article will explore and discuss this painting in more detail, providing both a contextual and formal analysis. How Many Irises Paintings Are There by Vincent Van Gogh?

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) brought his work in Provence to a close with exuberant bouquets of spring flowers—two of irises and two of roses, in contrasting formats and color schemes—in which he sought to impart a "calm, unremitting ardor" to his "last touch of the brush."

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise) Date: 1890. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm) Credit Line: Gift of Adele R. Levy, 1958.

Each one of Van Gogh's irises is unique. He carefully studied their movements and shapes to create a variety of curved silhouettes bounded by wavy, twisting, and curling lines. The painting's...

Learn about Vincent van Gogh's Irises - inspired by the garden at the asylum Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Remy and Japanese woodblock prints.

2023年11月3日 · Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Detail. If you look closer at Irises you can observe that each flower is unique. Van Gogh carefully studied their movements and shapes to create a variety of silhouettes.