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VINCENT VAN GOGH:
Excerpts from the Letters
SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST OF COLORS
To Emile Bernard, Arles, second half of June, 1888
This is what I wanted to say about black and white. Take the Sower. The picture
is divided in half; one half, the upper part, is yellow; the lower part is violet. Well,
the white trousers allow the eye to rest and distract it at the moment when the
excessive simultaneous contrast of yellow and violet would irritate it.
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