Yellow Christ
1889
A glowing yellow Jesus kneels in prayer in this striking Post-Impressionist scene, while his disciples doze off in the foreground, completely oblivious to the divine drama unfolding. The artist uses bold, dark outlines and flat, unblended colors—a technique called Cloisonnism—to make the figures look almost like stained glass windows come to life. Painted in 1889, this vivid interpretation of the Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane swaps traditional realism for raw emotional expression, forever changing how modern artists approached religious subjects.
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