Yellow

The point is the only formal element that I can imagine for the color yellow. Only the point radiates its energy consistently to all sides. This is precisely what prompted my decision to change over from the line to the point as a means of conveying color over fifteen years ago.

There is a great deal of variation in the way that colors react to enlargements of the picture plane in terms of expression and effect. Each of the four sketches for the Symphony in Yellow had its own truth as an image, but this truth only applied to a smaller format. Any linear translation into a larger format simply proved impossible. But this was not the only problem with the color yellow; cold and warm yellows, for example, do not react to one another by the book, but exactly the other way around. Warm yellows fall back, while cold tones stand out. This is but one of the many peculiarities of yellow.