Un soleil, une lumière, que faute de mieux je ne puis appeler que jaune, jaune soufre pâle, citron pâle or. Que c'est beau le jaune! Vincent Van Gogh : lettre à son frère Théo. Moissons en Provence, juin 1888.

At the Philadelphia Art Museum

The intensity is doing the healing, not the color. Was it the yellow itself, or the act of laying it down thick and fast that steadied his mind?

I love learning things like this. It makes the paintings feel alive in a completely different way

He made those yellow flower works in France in 1888 to show bright sunlight.

Thanx for posting this..I overlooked the power of yellow till I saw Ernst's paintings in his wife Sally G's house in Venice & then saw the power of yellow in the English skies that Turner caught.

He loved color and he let it show.

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What would he have thought about a neon yellow highlighter? 🤔

I stood in front of the National Gallery Sunflowers again a while back. No photo prepares you for how thick that paint sits. Every brushstroke is right there.

Oh ya. Havent you ever used yellow ?

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