My favorite color is yellow like the sunlight.
Cool! Anything interesting about the color 'yellow' in particular?
I like it because it was one of the first colors used in art.
Oh? Do you know when it was first used?
Well France has a painting of a yellow horse that is over 17,000 years old, so you can only imagine how long ago the color yellow was used.
Oh, that's neat! Did yellow have any historic significance like purple did for royalty?
It was used to portray gold and skin color in paintings with Egyptian tombs.
Nice! Anything else that's neat you know about? Personally I'm not a big fan of yellow myself, but I guess it's important!
as egg yolks, buttercups, and bananas. They absorb light energy and protect plants from photodamage. Sunlight has a slight yellowish hue when sun is near a horizon, due to atmosphere scattering shorter wavelengths (green, blue, and violet).
Because it was widely available, yellow ochre pigment was one of the first colors used in art; the Lascaux cave in France has a painting of a yellow horse 17,000 years old. Ochre and orpiment pigments were used to represent gold and skin color in Egyptian tombs, then
if the color is inert or dynamic.
History and art.
History and art Prehistoric and ancient history.
White was one of the first colors used in art. The Lascaux Cave in France contains drawings of bulls and other animals drawn by paleolithic artists between 18,000 and 17,000 years ago. Paleolithic artists used calcite or chalk, sometimes as a background, sometimes as a highlight, along with charcoal and red and yellow ochre in their vivid cave paintings.
In ancient Egypt, white was connected with the goddess Isis.