Last week, I wrote about the iconic painter Vincent van Gogh and how he used art to confront personal challenges. With the start of the spring season, the vivid detail of van Gogh’s paintings made me think about his glorious works of nature, most notably his painting Irises. Van Gogh’s interpretation of simple, yet beautiful, aspects of nature is remarkable. Artists, like all of us, see so many of the same things in unique and special ways. My favorite artistic works are those that don’t tell … [Read more...]