How Lovely Yellow Is!

“There is a sun, a light that for want of another word
I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron.
How lovely yellow is - Vincent Van Gogh

A Pair of Leather Clogs 1888 Vincent van Gogh

Painters know yellow as an essential primary color in their palettes. Combined with the two other primaries, red and blue, and along with a bit of white and black, much of the visible world can be represented in paint. For everyone else, yellow has its own relevance, both large and small, positive and negative, depending on one’s areas of interest. It has an important place in religious symbolism of many faiths and creeds, in the science of optics and astronomy, in horticulture, journalism, mythology and so on. It has been associated with cowardice and as a symbol of exclusion, chosen as the color for the yellow stars required to be worn by Jews in Nazi Germany. It is also been seen as the…