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| Irises (1890) Photo credit: Sharon Mollerus via Foter.com / CC BY |
The painting Irises shows a bouquet of spring flowers in a pitcher. Vincent Van Gogh painted this piece before checking himself out of the asylum. On the first page of Chapter 29, page 263, it states, "I am working like one actually possessed... And I think that this will help cure me." This is a quote from one of the letters sent by Van Gogh to his brother, Theo. This shows the reason why Irises was painted along with other paintings. To Van Gogh, painting was the source to his sanity, keeping him from going crazy. He believed that if he only focused on his work and paintings, that will cure him from his depression. The painting here portrays colors of the season of spring.
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