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Cameron Toney's avatar

I love this! Yellow isy favorite color, has been since childhood, and it gets a short shift often. Thank you for this glowing and in depth look at it.

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Rose Florence's avatar

Glowing is the right word - if there’s one thing I learned about it! What’s your favorite shade of it?

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Kristin Walker's avatar

Yellow is my favorite color too and it’s so nice to see other yellow enthusiasts!

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Tim Goldsmith's avatar

I run an art gallery and we are about to install a yellow themed exhibit of 108 artists and the algorithm must have known, because this showed up in my feed. Delightful!

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Rose Florence's avatar

Ok Tim you must give me more details - does the exhibit have a site?? I’d love to check it out!

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Tim Goldsmith's avatar

The show doesn't have an online store or gallery because we had a very high volume of work. I can send pictures somehow? I'm also planning to write a substack post about it soon.

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Tim Goldsmith's avatar

It just opened tonight!

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Rose Florence's avatar

Congrats!!! i can’t wait to see more

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sofia's avatar

sunshine girl writing about yellow 💛

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Rose Florence's avatar

And thanks to YOU for the fashunnnn sunshine sprinkle

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Lisa Horn's avatar

When I rebranded my business in 2022, I chose a bright yellow & haven’t been able to get enough yellow ever since. This history makes me love yellow even more! 💛💛💛💛💛💛

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Rose Florence's avatar

Oh drop your biz link in here! We’d all love to see!!!!

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Justine Chiara's avatar

Always have loved yellow, illuminating post!

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Rose Florence's avatar

Let me know your next fave color, plotting the next series!

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LoLo's avatar

I love everything about this post and this series!! I feel like the actual techniques and physical tools that go into making art are so little discussed or studied. It really puts you into the mind and heart of the artist to consider the materials they used and the risks they took to create their art. 💛

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Hackney to Holland's avatar

Fantastic and educational read. I actually visited the Rijksmuseum last week and saw these amazing yellows up close and personal. I want to return now and pay even closer attention to them.

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Rose Florence's avatar

I’m so jealous! Each Vermeer is a little jewel-box. I could stare for hours.

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Shayne Rich's avatar

these are my favorite posts to read 💛

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Rose Florence's avatar

Taking requests for the next color!

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Shayne Rich's avatar

have you done purple?

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Rose Florence's avatar

Nope! Needs to be done💜

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edit.profile's avatar

Please please do :)

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Christl Stringer's avatar

Yellow is my absolute favorite color. I had to convince some fellow artists that Naples yellow is worth playing with recently. Absolutely love the brightness of cadmium too.

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Rose Florence's avatar

Once you know the background context you start to think of the price of paint differently. P.S. I’d love to see your work!!

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Christl Stringer's avatar

Here’s a work where I used Naples and cadmium! https://www.instagram.com/p/DHTUeIGMFqe/?igsh=amNoenRkZHZuODRh

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The Savvy Museum Visitor's avatar

So fun! Thanks for all the work you put into this! I’ve done very little research into colors but I once worked in a historic house museum that used the wrong historical shade of green in one of their rooms and it always drove me nuts!

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Rose Florence's avatar

The worst nightmare for color enthusiasts like us. What’s your fave color?!

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The Savvy Museum Visitor's avatar

I’m a shades of purple girl. My house - sounds weird I know- is shades of purple, green, and yellow. Eclectic and cozy. What’s your color?

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Ron Nurwisah's avatar

In the Chinese court, yellow was the color that represented the emperor and was only worn by the highest officials or those closest to him (her?)

Similar to how purple was seen as an imperial color in Rome.

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Rose Florence's avatar

That’s incredible context - I bet there’s still trickle down significance in the culture now

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Ron Nurwisah's avatar

Was thinking about this… a little less than I expected actually. I think communism kinda did a number on this actually. So associations with royalty was not popular if a bit problematic.

Red is a big deal because it’s 100% the good luck color. You see it everywhere in Chinese culture. And conveniently syncs up with Mao (little red book and all).

White is the color of funerals and death. Traditional chinese funerals have mourners in white. If you’re at a traditional Chinese wedding the bride will likely not wear white. It’s bad luck.

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emily north's avatar

GORGEOUS

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Rose Florence's avatar

Debated giving the history of “blonde” as a color - next time an addendum just for u

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somsack sikhounmuong's avatar

I remember sitting in my high school guidance counselor’s yellow kitchen and thinking 1. “ ok Mrs Bruce u go! “ 2. this feels so nice .

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Rose Florence's avatar

It has an effect on u no matter where or how you see it!

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Stacey's avatar

Yellow rules!!! And lives through your wonderful piece!! Thank you!!

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Rose Florence's avatar

Yellow fan club let’s goooo☀️

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slim's avatar

Who knew yellow was so fascinating? You knew, I suppose. Your voice makes this such an engaging read. Excited to keep learning w you 💛

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Rose Florence's avatar

300,000 years of history, we gotta find SOMETHING good!!

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Maggie Lanham's avatar

I'm just awed by the amount of research this took and how easily digestible you made hundreds of years of yellow obsession! LOVE your work!

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Rose Florence's avatar

Thank god I’m surrounded by people equally obsessed with niche colors history!!! Soul mate stuff

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