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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 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.
Dido is seen seated, with her arms stretched in the shape of a cross. For Fuseli, Dido's suicide is an example of a "supreme beauty in the jaws of death". The goddess Juno, enemy of Aeneas, sent her messenger Iris to cut a lock of the queen's hair, and this is the scene depicted in the painting. At the foot of her corpse, there is a woman ...
The painting shows rows of irises in various shades of purple and pink set diagonally across the picture plane. The flowers are under trees that in allowing dappled light through change the tone of their colours. Beyond the trees is a glimpse of Monet's house. [1]
八橋図屏風 Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges), Metropolitan Museum of Art; Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, John T. Carpenter, Metropolitan Museum of Art p.210; Irises: Vincent Van Gogh in the Garden, Jennifer Helvey, p.118; Twenty-Five Words for Iris: Ogata Korin at the Nezu Museum, Alan Gleason, artscape Japan
Vase with Irises Against a Yellow Background is an oil painting on canvas made in 1889 by the painter Vincent Van Gogh. It is preserved in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam . It is one of the works done while he was admitted to the psychiatric clinic in Saint-Rémy, a town near Arles .
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 paintings that she made over her career. [3]
Jennifer Helvey, author of Irises: Vincent van Gogh in the Garden, groups five garden paintings that Van Gogh made in Arles due to stylist similarity. This grouping includes two butterfly paintings: Two White Butterflies and Grass and Butterflies. She found the paintings seem true, natural reflections of gardens, with a top-down perspective.
Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, [1] usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas.