Yellow is a color that tends to divide opinion. Some find it uplifting, others overwhelming. Some avoid it entirely. But whether it makes you smile or wince, one thing is certain, yellow gets a ...

Michel Pastoureau, Yellow: The History of a Color (image courtesy of Princeton University Press) My copy of the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols describes yellow as “the hottest, the most expansive and ...

“How beautiful yellow is!” Vincent van Gogh wrote in an 1888 letter to brother Theo van Gogh that began “Sunshine, a light which, for want of a better word I can only call yellow—pale sulfur yellow, ...

Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour opened this week in Amsterdam (until 17 May). The Van Gogh Museum’s new exhibition focuses on paintings by a range of artists in which yellow is the predominant colour ...