Yellow According to Ann Blokland

Yellow is cheerful, warmth, and optimism. The idea for the exhibition came about thanks to Vincent van Gogh. When you think of Van Gogh, you're already likely to think of yellow. Yellow of the sunflowers, field of grain. But was he the only one in that? That does not appear to be the case. In his time, there were many artists who dared to choose that color. It is a color you need a bit of courage to use. The piece from the exhibition that I truly find fantastic... It is the Yellow Hill of Kuno Amjet. At the time it was painted, that dates back to 1903... Was it really so modern to represent nature in such a simplified way? The essence of nature and what nature does to you when you look at it... and it gives that feeling of joy, of optimism, and of spring. You have that foreground with all those yellow dots, all those buttercups... And then the yellow hill, which seems entirely solid yellow, but in fact it isn't either. I think this artist has made something symbolic of it... yet still remained very close to nature. And I think that's done wonderfully.