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VINCENT VAN GOGH:
Excerpts from the Letters
COMPLEMENTARY COLOR
To Emile Bernard, Arles, second half of June 1888
What I should like to find out is the effect of an intenser blue in the sky. Fromentin
and Gerome see the soil of the South as colorless, and a lot of people see it like that.
My God, yes, if you take some sand in your hand, if you look at it closely, and also
water, and also air, they are all colorless, looked at in this way. There isno blue
without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in
yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write
to you are only banalities.
To Emile Bernard, Arles, second half of june 1888
There are many hints of yellow in the soil, neutral tones resulting from mixing
violet with yellow; but I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the
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