Oleanders
Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
Original Dimensions: 23 3/4" x 29"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1888) "For Van Gogh, oleanders were joyous, life-affirming flowers that bloomed "inexhaustibly" and were always "putting out strong new shoots." In this painting of August 1888 the flowers fill a majolica jug that the artist used for other still lifes made in Arles. They are symbolically juxtaposed with Émile Zola's La joie de vivre, a novel that Van Gogh had placed in contrast to an open Bible in a Nuenen still life of 1885." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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