Yellow throughout art history

Here is one yellow painting form each of the most influential art movements in history.

Prehistoric art   


Cave paintings (Laas Geel, Somaliland)

Ancient art  


Detail of an amphora – Pamphaios (potter), Oltos (painter)

Byzantine art     


Surviving mosaic from Hagia Sophia, Constantinople

Renaissance


The woman with the veil – Raphael

Mannerism


Susanna and the Elders – Alessandro Allori

Baroque

Heracles and the Nemea Lion – Pieter Paul Rubens

Rococo

 Girl with a dog –  Jean-Honore Fragonard

Neoclassicism 

Napoleon at Saint-Bernard Pass – Jacques-Louis David

Romanticism

The morning  – Philipp Otto Runge

 Realism

The Gleaners – Jean-François Millet

Art Nouveau

Spring – Alphonse Mucha

Impressionism

Haystacks – Claude Monet

Post- Impressionism

 Sunflowers – Vincent van Gogh

Fauvism

Le bonheur de vivre – Henri Matisse

Expressionism

Yellow cow – Franz Marc

Cubism

Weeping Woman – Pablo Picasso

Abstract art

Untitled A – Piet Mondrian

Surrealism

 Arbol de la Esperanza – Frida Kahlo

Abstract Expressionism

Untitled – Mark Rothko

Pop Art 

Pop art figures – Keith Haring

Contemporary Art

 Doppelselbstporträt  – Maria Lassing

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