Sunflowers, Extra Crispy: Van Gogh Paints Through the Apocalypse

In this rarely exhibited late-summer vision, Vincent van Gogh does what any committed artist would do during the hottest season ever recorded by thermometers, satellites, or screaming Parisian tourists in Provence: he keeps painting. Never mind that the iconic sunflowers are spontaneously combusting in the background — nature’s palette has simply expanded to include ‘shade of inferno.’

Set during the Now Annual Mediterranean Flame Festival (formerly known as July), this piece captures a moment of poetic absurdity where art remains defiantly serene while the world quite literally burns behind it. Van Gogh doesn’t flinch. He just mixes a little more “Yellow Ochre: Wildfire Edition” .

A quietly blazing commentary on climate indifference and the slow-roasting irony of beauty in collapse.