Crossword clues for irises
irises
- Colorful rings
- Eye pieces?
- Van Gogh opus
- Pupil surrounders
- Lens openings
- Frequent Van Gogh subjects
- Flowers painted by Van Gogh
- Floral Van Gogh subjects
- Floral painting by van Gogh
- Famous Van Gogh still life
- Expensive van Gogh
- Colorful perennials
- 1889 oil on canvas by van Gogh
- Work at the Getty Museum
- Where pupils sit?
- What people are actually complimenting when they say "You have beautiful eyes"
- Van Gogh painting that set an auction record
- Van Gogh painting that once fetched a record amount at auction ($53.9 million)
- Van Gogh painting sold for a record $53.9 million in 1987
- Van Gogh painting in the Getty
- Van Gogh masterwork
- Van Gogh classic
- Van Gogh blooms
- Van Gogh bloomers
- Van Gogh at the Getty
- Ultra-expensive van Gogh painting
- Title of a flowery van Gogh painting
- They provide shade to eyes
- Surrounders of pupils
- Some biometric screening targets
- Showy, often bearded flowers
- Showy spring bloomers
- Record-setting Van Gogh painting
- Purple Van Gogh subjects
- Purple spring blooms
- Pupil controllers
- Pigmented membranes
- Parts of cameras or eyes
- Orchid-like flowers
- Ocular biometric scan targets
- Large garden flowers
- Flowery van Gogh work
- Flowery van Gogh painting
- Flowers Van Gogh painted
- Flowers that symbolize the warrior spirit, in Japanese iconography
- Flowers or peeper parts
- Flowers named for a rainbow goddess
- Flowers in Van Gogh paintings
- Flowers in a van Gogh masterpiece
- Flowers in a famous van Gogh painting
- Colored parts of eyes
- Colored eye parts
- Bearded spring blooms
- Adjustable lens openings
- 1889 work painted in an asylum
- $54 million Van Gogh work
- Spring blooms
- Ogata Korin painting
- Record-setting van Gogh canvas
- Record price-setting van Gogh work
- Pupils' spots
- Popular van Gogh painting
- Pupils' surroundings
- Van Gogh painting that set an auction record in 1987
- Official blooms of Tennessee
- Van Gogh work
- Van Gogh subjects
- Camera components
- Showy blooms
- Garden bouquet
- Pigmented eye parts
- Contacts go over them
- Bearded perennials
- Spring bloomers
- Van Gogh painting that sold for a record $53.9 million in 1987
- Those in front of lenses
- Often-purple flowers
- Van Gogh masterpiece
- Van Gogh painting dominated by green and blue
- Van Gogh painting that once sold for a record $53.9 million
- Eye parts
- Purple spring bloomers
- Purple things in several van Gogh paintings
- Yellow flags
- Blue flags
- Bearded beauties
- Spring beauties
- Garden flowers
- Rainbows
- Elizabeth Taylor's are violet
- Blooms from bulbs
- Spring bloomers (6)
- Pupils' locales
- Garden bloomers
- Pupil regulators
- Flowers: one comes up
- Purple flowers
- Painting is about to come up
- Is about to get up, but flags
- Showy flowers
- The eyes have them
- Van Gogh painting that in 1987 set a then-record for the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction
- Camera parts or flowers
- Spring flowers that are frequently blue or purple
- Monet subject
- Parts of eyes
- Showy spring flowers
- They have pupils
- Parts of the eye
- They surround pupils
- Light regulators
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iris \I"ris\, n.; pl. E. Irises, L. Irides. [L. iris, iridis, the goddess, Gr. ?, ?, the rainbow, iris of the eye, the plant Iris. Cf. Orris.]
(Class. Myth.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.
--Shak.The rainbow.
--Sir T. Browne.An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
--Tennyson.(Anat.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.
(Bot.) A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce.
(Her.) See Fleur-de-lis, 2.
(Zo["o]l.) the inner circle of an oscillated color spot.
same as iris diaphragm.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of iris nodot=1 English) when referring to multiple blossoms. ('''Iris''' is multiple for multiple plants.)
Wikipedia
Irises is one of many paintings and prints of irises by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Irises was painted while Vincent van Gogh was living at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.
It was painted before his first attack at the asylum. There is a lack of the high tension which is seen in his later works. He called the painting "the lightning conductor for my illness" because he felt that he could keep himself from going insane by continuing to paint.
The painting was influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints like many of his works and those by other artists of the time. The similarities occur with strong outlines, unusual angles, including close-up views, and also flattish local colour (not modelled according to the fall of light).
He considered this painting a study which is probably why there are no known drawings for it, although Theo, Van Gogh's brother, thought better of it and quickly submitted it to the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in September 1889, together with Starry Night Over the Rhone. He wrote to Vincent of the exhibition: "[It] strikes the eye from afar. The Irises are a beautiful study full of air and life."
Usage examples of "irises".
The red striations in those dark irises brightened, sending a shiver down her spine.
The color of his irises, though, was a distinctly nonhuman and very demonic red, complete with slit pupils.
Tess glanced at the bed of irises beyond the bay window, hoping she could find time in her busy day for a walk through the garden to enjoy the glorious riot of color surrounding her.
They were surrounded by clumps of shorter Dreaming Yellow Siberian irises the color of rich cream.
Specially made for Iris House, it was decorated with hand-painted irises the color of ripe raspberries.
Tess was not familiar enough with all the names of the irises to narrate a tour through the garden.
Fern and Marisa strolled among the irises, taking their own private tour while the second tour group enjoyed tea.
Their pupils were contracted to pin-points, the light-grey irises around had a sort of swimming glitter, and round these again the whites were injected with blood.
She had naturally black irises and black eyebrows, with short, almost shaved auburn hair.
The contacts turned his irises completely black, and he blinked twice to center them.
Minoru, growing agitated, made another call, hung up suddenly, and, with white now visible all the way around the irises of his eyeballs, came after Takeshi, who got ready to run the other way.
When he saw her face again, he was amazed at the sudden green paleness of her irises, as if something had drained away.
He sat weaving in the dark, white showing all around his irises, trying to readjust, figure out what was going on.
irises, giant irises, their petals hanging down like tongues of exhausted dogs.
Then an enormous wind blew up, the petals of the irises fell like rain, and the whole grand and grotesque assembly went whirling away, carried higher and higher into the sky until they appeared as small black dots against the face of the moon.