Oleanders by vincent van gogh: 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[1]. Object Type: painting. Genre: still life. Date: 1888. Place of creation: Arles. Dimensions: height: 60.3 cm (23.7 in); width: 73.7 cm (29 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. VanGogh-VaseLauriersroses
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