A Colour Symphony Welsh Symphony Orchestra. The last movement, "Green", was separately published as "Pyonepsion". In 1977, a ballet called "Royal Offering" was created, with music based on "A Colour Symphony". A short extract from the 'Red' movement was used as the opening music to BBC TV coverage of The Proms until 2011. The British artist Kevin Laycock created a visual piece called "Four Movements in Colour", in which he attempted to portray, in colour, the sounds created by Arthur Bliss. In 2004, Laycock created a series of paintings called "Tectonics" as a direct response to Bliss's "A Colour Symphony" using parallel compositional
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis painting is a reference to Goethe’s "Theory of Colour", which explains the colour yellow as being the first colour transmitted from light. The form of the painting is circular, symbolising the construction of the human eye, changing the focus of a typical linear splitting of space to a more subjective portrayal. The colour yellow is typically optimistic, but Turner captures the negativity of yellow by attaching the colour to a light that is subject to change. The morning sun aspect of the colour is something transient. "Light and Colour" was among three paintings stolen from a Frankfurt museum in 1994.