Oleanders. #8
by Vincent Van Gogh
Title
Oleanders. #8
Artist
Vincent Van Gogh
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Oleanders. Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853-1890 Auvers-sur-Oise). Dimensions: 23 3/4 x 29 in. (60.3 x 73.7 cm). Date: 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. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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