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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.
In this series of paintings about flowers (Vase with Cornflowers and Poppies, Vase with Pink Roses, Japanese Vase with Roses and Anemones) the influence of Japanese prints can be perceived, it is a theme that fascinated him during most of his artistic career and was very popular among the society of his time, which led him to eliminate the ...
This second pair of screens has been held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1953, and were last displayed in 2013. [10] The second pair of iris screens, circa 1710–1716, was also painted with ink and color on gold-foiled paper, and measure 163.7 by 352.4 centimetres (64.4 in × 138.7 in) each. [11]
Black Iris, formerly called Black Iris III, [1] [2] is a 1926 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe. [3] Art historian Linda Nochlin interpreted Black Iris as a morphological metaphor for female genitalia.
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Iris lacustris, the dwarf lake iris, is a plant species in the genus Iris, subgenus Limniris and in the section Lophiris (crested irises). It is a rhizomatous, beardless perennial plant, native to the Great Lakes region of eastern North America. It has lavender blue or violet-blue flowers, a very short stem and long fan-like green leaves.
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The flowers are bright yellow, 7–10 cm (2.8–3.9 in) across, with the typical iris form. The fruit is a dry capsule 4–7 cm (1.6–2.8 in) long, containing numerous pale brown seeds. I. pseudacorus grows best in very wet conditions, and is common in wetlands, where it tolerates submersion, low pH , and anoxic soils.