Van Gogh used more yellow colours in his paintings later in his life because the medication he was on (digoxin), for his chronic heart failure, causes altered perceptions of colours in vision (mostly ‘yellow vision’) as a side-effect.
Van Gogh used more yellow colours in his paintings later in his life because the medication he was on (digoxin), for his chronic heart failure, causes altered perceptions of colours in vision (mostly ‘yellow vision’) as a side-effect.