This half-dome Van Gogh glass paperweight Irises features his iconic work produced in 1889, found at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Dutch Post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh produced his iconic work Irises while interned at an asylum in Saint-Rèmy, France after a self-mutilation episode. While interned at the Asylum in Saint-Rèmy Van Gogh produced over 130 paintings, making it the most prolific period during his artistic career. The Irises represented in the work, were inspired by those found in the garden at the asylum, and the work's color vibrancy, unmodulated areas of color, and overflowing border attribute their influence to Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, such as those produced by the artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Van Gogh was a master painter who strongly influenced the abstract and Neo-expressionist who came after him. Originating from the Netherlands, he discovered Impressionist art while living in Paris and started to use the color and light. His work is well known for its beauty, emotion, and color, as well as its interesting viewpoints of mundane objects.
Despite being extremely poor and generally unknown throughout his lifetime, Van Gogh is now one of the greatest Dutch painters. He lived a life with emotional tension and madness, and he created his finest piece, Starry Night, inside an institution.
Although the specter of mental illness haunted him throughout his adult life and created a habit of inflicting self-harm (such as the infamous severed ear), his work remained a testament to his genius. Van Gogh died at the age of only 37, due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His brother Theo would go on to distribute his work and cultivate his popularity.
