Famous painters: biographies, movements and great masters

The Bedroom in Arles by Vincent van Gogh, dominated by yellows, 1888
Why Did Van Gogh Paint So Much in Yellow? Pigments, Light and Symbolism
Why yellow became central to Van Gogh’s work: 19th-century industrial pigments, Arles’s light, the high yellow note and solar symbolism. Pigments, museums, letters, chronology and choosing reproductions. Read more...