Irises
Vincent Van Gogh Irises, 1889 Oil on canvas 28 x 37 inches (71 x 94 cm) New York, Sotheby’s Vincent van Gogh was among a handful of artists that adopted post-impressionism, an art movement that immediately followed Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism The artists involved, usually meaning Paul Cézanne, Paul Gaguin, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec showed a greater concern for expression, structure and form than did the Impressionist artists. ... In Irises a magnificent cluster of spiky blooms, still firmly rooted in the earth, is observed at close quarters. ... The irises touch each other except the lonely white one that is clearly separated from the others, and it is situated on the border between both groups of flowers. ... When one looks beneath this line, to the irises or their leaves, the sight jumps from one point to another in a certain nervous movement.