Vincent van Gogh was an excellent 따tist. But, his inclividual life was unhappy. The great artist wanted to give hope to people with his own pictures and communicate with people. But, his life was always poor and common happiness given to people livi...
Vincent van Gogh was an excellent 따tist. But, his inclividual life was unhappy. The great artist wanted to give hope to people with his own pictures and communicate with people. But, his life was always poor and common happiness given to people living in the same period was not permitted to him. He suffered from a sense of inferiority, his relationship with people was not good and he should fight with severe loneliness. His pictures give a liveliness with strong brushstroke, but despair was continued in his life. But, Gogh drew pictures continuously and intended to find his existence in the pictures, so he established his own creative world of pictures. Yellow he enjoyed using shows positive images such as life, hope, brightness, warmness, expectation, happiness, etc. in color psychology.
But, it also contains negative images such as loneliness, despair, sharpness, desperation, delusion, schizophrenia, epilepsy, etc. Also, when yellow is contrasted to black, it has images of desperation and danger.
While he was living in Arles, yellow show positive color images such as hope, expectation and happiness. But, after experiencing mental pain, schizophrenia, alcoholic and conflict with Gauguin, yellow symbolized unhappiness, despair and death for him.
This thesis intends to approach yellow's image in Gogh's works through the color psychology and assist to understand a great 따tist, Vincent van Gogh, As the results, yellow Gogh used in works is reflected by Gogh’ s routine of life and inner psychology as well as directivity of life he wanted.