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painting [image-making] --- yellow [color] --- Rubens, Peter Paul

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Sculpture --- sculpture [visual works] --- red [color] --- yellow [color] --- blue [color] --- Goeschl, Roland

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Ayme, Albert --- Van Gogh, Vincent --- Painting --- yellow [color] --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Gogh, van, Vincent --- paintings [visual works]

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Aujourd'hui, en Europe, le jaune est une couleur discrète, peu présente dans la vie quotidienne et guère sollicitée dans le monde des symboles. Il n'en a pas toujours été ainsi. Les peuples de l'Antiquité voyaient en lui une couleur presque sacrée, celle de la lumière, de la chaleur, de la richesse et de la prospérité. Les Grecs et les Romains lui accordaient une place importante dans les rituels religieux, tandis que les Celtes et les Germains l'associaient à l'or et à l'immortalité. Le déclin du jaune date du Moyen Âge qui en a fait une couleur ambivalente. D'un côté le mauvais jaune, celui de la bile amère et du soufre démoniaque (signe de mensonge, d'avarice, de félonie, parfois de maladie ou de folie). C'est la couleur des hypocrites, des chevaliers félons, de Judas et de la Synagogue. L'étoile jaune de sinistre mémoire trouve ici ses lointaines racines. Mais de l'autre côté il y a le bon jaune, celui de l'or, du miel et des blés mûrs (signe de pouvoir, de joie, d'abondance). À partir du XVIe siècle, la place du jaune dans la culture matérielle ne cesse de reculer. La Réforme protestante puis la Contre-Réforme catholique et enfin les « valeurs bourgeoises » du XIXe siècle le tiennent en peu d'estime. Même si la science le range au nombre des couleurs primaires, il ne se revalorise guère et sa symbolique reste équivoque. De nos jours encore, le jaune verdâtre est ressenti comme désagréable ou dangereux ; il porte en lui quelque chose de maladif ou de toxique. Inversement, le jaune qui se rapproche de l'orangé est joyeux, sain, tonique, bienfaisant, à l'image des fruits de cette couleur et des vitamines qu'ils sont censés contenir.

Couleurs --- Couleur (art) --- Jaune --- Aspect symbolique --- Histoire. --- Aspect symbolique. --- Aspect social. --- Yellow --- History. --- Symbolic aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Yellow. --- Color --- Symbolism of colors --- Yellow in art. --- Psychological aspects --- Social aspects --- Dyes --- yellow [color] --- Yellow in art --- Couleur --- History --- Color - Psychological aspects - History --- Color - Social aspects - History --- Symbolism of colors - History

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Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify demonic sulfur and bile, the color of forgers, felon knights, traitors, Judas, and Lucifer-while warm yellow recalled honey and gold, serving as a sign of joy, pleasure and abundance. The yellow stars of the Holocaust were seared into the color's negative tradition. In Europe today, yellow has diminished to a discreet color. Greenish yellow can still be seen as dangerous, sickly, or poisonous, and golden yellow remains positive, but the color is absent in much of everyday life and is lacking in symbolism. In Asia, however, yellow pigments like ocher and orpiment and dyes like saffron, curcuma, and gaude are abundant. Painting and dyeing in this color has been easier than in Europe, offering a richer and more varied palette of yellows that has granted the color a more positive meaning. In ancient China, for example, yellow clothing was reserved for the emperor. In India, the color is seen as a source of happiness: wearing a little yellow is believed to keep evil away. And importantly, it is the color of Buddhism, whose temple doors are marked with the color. Yellow continues to have different meanings in different cultural traditions, but in most, the color remains associated with light and sun, something that can be seen from afar and that seems warm and always in motion.

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