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Yellow is bright, warm and positive – and a lot more, too. Many artists express themselves through the colour of the sun, which transcends many phases of art history. One of the world’s most important painters was so fascinated by the colour that he even moved into a yellow house…
HOW LOVELY« MANY ARTISTS’ FAVOURITE COLOUR TEXT: ROBERT EBERHARDT
As with every colour, yellow experienced changes in perception over the course of art history, whereby this bright, warm colour was usually filled with positive symbolism. As the colour of the sun, it was already
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worshiped as holy in the natural world; as the source of all energy and all life, the colour of prosperity and knowledge. Yellow pigments were found in the cave paintings of Lascaux (about 16,000 BC), Egyptians used ocher to represent
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