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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 Museum’s Irises he sought a “harmonious and soft” effect by placing the “violet” flowers against a “pink background,” which have since faded owing to his use of fugitive red pigments. Another work from this series, Roses (1993.400.5), hangs in the adjacent gallery.
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.
The first, "Irises," showed a bed of purple irises with a single white blossom, and the second, "The Iris" showed a smaller patch of the flowers with only a single blossom, both of which he painted soon after his arrival at Saint-Remy.
Vincent van Gogh’s Irises painting depicts a composition filled with flowers. There is no sign of a sky, mountains, or a building, but only several purple iris flowers, most of which are positioned and seemingly clumped into the upper and lower right-hand side of the composition.
Seeking to achieve a powerful visual impact, he juxtaposed the deep purple hues of the irises against a vibrant yellow background. This stark contrast allowed the decorative forms of the flowers to stand out compellingly.
Van Gogh was captivated by the colours of the landscape around the town of Arles (FR). He particularly loved the contrast between the yellow and purple flowers in the fields. In the landscape, he felt he could see a reflection of the world he knew from his collection of Japanese prints.
Details. Title: Irises (Front) Creator: Vincent van Gogh. Date Created: 1889. Location Created: Saint-Rémy, France. Physical Dimensions: 74.3 × 94.3 cm (29 1/4 × 37 1/8 in.) Type: Painting....
Van Gogh even wrote that all the inmates would come and watch him work in the garden, painting the various flowers that he observed there. In fact, in the same letter, he stated that he had already begun two paintings on the first day that he was there, one of which was a violet Irises painting.
Vincent van Gogh painted a number of flower still lifes during his last weeks at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy. For him, the painting was a study in colour and contrast. He did so by...