Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
Date: 1888
Museum: Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, Netherlands)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Symphony in yellowVan Gogh has long had the ambition to create a ‘symphony in yellow’, a work in various shades of yellow. This is a risky undertaking because the image can easily become an amorphous mass of colour. In this still life he is clearly still hesitant to work with yellow on yellow. This is apparent, for example, from the harsh tonal difference between the yellow of the lemons and that of the table.Other coloursHe also adds other colours: the dark green of the bottle, the light green of the background, the orange of the oranges and the cork on the bottle, and above all the light blue shadows. With these, he increases the contrast between the dark lemons and the light yellow of the basket and the table, while at the same time emphasizing the separation between the table edge and the background.RespectHelene Kröller-Müller writes with admiration that
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