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Irises the Elegent Mystery
Irises is a painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Irises was painted while Vincent van Gogh was living at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.
It was painted before his first attack at the asylum. There is a lack of the high tension which is seen in his later works. Van Gogh called the painting “the lightning conductor for my illness”, because he felt that he could keep himself from going insane by continuing to paint.
The painting was influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, like many of his works and those by other artists of the time. The similarities occur with strong outlines, unusual angles, including close-up views and also flattish local colour (not modelled according to the fall of light).
He considered this painting a study, which is probably why there are no known drawings for it, although Theo, Van Gogh’s brother, thought better of it and quickly submitted it to the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in September 1889, together with Starry Night Over the Rhone. He wrote to Vincent of the exhibition: “[It] strikes the eye from afar. The Irises are a beautiful study full of air and life.”
Irises are a painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Irises were painted while Vincent Van Gogh was living at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890. There, in the last year before his death, he created almost 130 paintings. Within the first week, he began Irises, working from nature in the asylum’s garden. The cropped composition, divided into broad areas of vivid color with monumental irises overflowing its borders, was probably influenced by the decorative patterning of Japanese woodblock prints.
Irises is on the list of the most expensive paintings ever sold, selling for 54 million dollars in 1987. Currently Irises is on display at The Getty Center in Los Angeles, California.
Van Gogh’s “Vase of Irises” was painted in 1890 during his voluntary stay at a mental asylum. The picture now resides at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In this painting, he dispenses with his previously blatant small brush strokes, and instead relies on a heavy impasto and black outlines to provide texture and depth. The palette he chose for this, one of his last paintings, was cooler and less boisterous that most of his previous canvases, employing gorgeous purples, greens and blues against a formal light background and white vase, with shots of yellow inside the bouquet for contrast. A green table repeats the green iris stalks that comprise the body of the flower arrangement and give it its graceful vertical sweep.
“Still Life: Vase with Irises Against a Yellow Background,” now at the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, was completed in 1890, during the end of his stay at the asylum. This work is considered a companion piece to “Vase with Irises.” Though the colors and sweeping lines are breathtakingly bold, the effect is also oriental in its formality. Van Gogh wrote this description of the work, in part: “…the other violet bunch… stands out against a startling citron background, with other yellow tones in the vase and the stand on which it rests, so it is an effect of tremendously disparate complementaries, which strengthen each other by their juxtaposition.”
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