Van Gogh - Irises

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With his colourful works, Van Gogh hoped to contribute to the modernisation of art. Irises (1890) is a fine example of a powerful, vivid work. Vincent wrote of ‘an effect of terribly disparate complementaries that reinforce each other by their opposition’.  



 

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