Oleanders — Daily Hue for April 25, 2026
Vincent van Gogh · 1888 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hidden color: Deep Muted Mint (#325f37)
About this puzzle
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.