Vincent van Gogh: Irises Thank You Notes

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
Irises, 1890

“Enjoy yourself as much as you can, have as many diversions as you can, and remember that what people demand in art nowadays is something very much alive, with strong color and great intensity,” Vincent van Gogh once wrote. Even during his troubled later years, Van Gogh found joy in nature and the adventure of expressing its fluctuations in vivid color.