{"id":2098,"date":"2015-07-08T09:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2015-07-08T09:08:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:08:25","slug":"creative-nudge-grapes-and-iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/creative-nudge-grapes-and-iris\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Nudge – Grapes and Iris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the great joys of travel for a creative person, is to visit art museums and see works by the masters.<\/p>\n

One of the most beloved artists is Van Gogh<\/a><\/strong>, who often chose a still life for a subject. His Iris flowers in the sun-drenched colors of the Arles countryside, are some of his most famous works.<\/p>\n

In the last few months I was able to visit some Van Gogh Iris<\/a> paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and last month I visited several art museums in Vienna, Austria…including the Kunst Historisches Museum.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the Kunst Historisches I was delighted to be allowed to take no-flash photos, and here is a closeup of a still life painting by Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller<\/a>. The grapes are so juicy that you want to reach out to pick one! Waldmuller’s style is obviously quite different from Van Gogh, but they both had a deep appreciation for the power of complementary colors in their still life paintings.<\/p>\n

Van Gogh’s Iris painting was influenced by Japanese woodblock prints<\/a>, with strong outlines, sharp angles, and flat saturated colors.<\/p>\n

A few years ago I visited Arles in Provence France, and peeked in at the Saint-Remy asylum<\/a> where he painted his Irises. It was a bittersweet moment to stand in the courtyard and see the late afternoon sun<\/a> fall at a sharp angle in the corner of the garden, just as Van Gogh would have seen that bright golden light and those dark purple shadows.<\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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