Orange (colour) paint straight from the tube. Paul Cézanne did not use orange pigment, but created his own oranges with touches of yellow, red and ochre against a blue background. Toulouse-Lautrec often used oranges in the skirts of dancers and gowns of Parisiennes in the cafes and clubs he portrayed. For him it was the colour of festivity and amusement. The post-impressionists went even further with orange. Paul Gauguin used oranges as backgrounds, for clothing and skin colour, to fill his pictures with light and exoticism. But no other painter used orange so often and dramatically as Vincent van Gogh. who had
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis depicted their relationship in a number of his paintings, including "Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – the Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis". According to this theory,the creation of colour is dependent on the distribution of dark and light reflecting through a transparent object. Turner uses main concepts from Goethe’s theory, which is a rejection of Newton's Seven Color Theory, and expresses the belief that every colour was an individualised combination of light and darkness. Newton's reasoning in his theory of light and colour was, in the words of Michael Duck, too "simplistic" for Goethe.