The world is a canvas of vibrant colors, capturing the imagination and emotions of both artists and viewers. Art has always been a medium for creative expression, with pigments and compounds added to ...

JUST BEYOND THE SERENE INTERIOR, A BACK WALL AWASH IN VIBRANT, SOMETIMES MUTED AND OFTEN MESMERIZING COLORS. AN ENCHANTMENT OF MORE THAN 3000 POWDERED PIGMENTS, BUT THIS IS NOT AN EXHIBIT. IT IS A ...

Historic pigments in the Straus Center collection at Harvard Art Museums, which is reopening this Sunday (photograph by Zak Jensen, all images courtesy Harvard Art Museums) When the Harvard Art ...

Few paintings in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection inspire reverence quite like Jackson Pollock’s Number 1A (1948). It’s a maze of paint, a ghostly white fog hanging amid sinews of black and blue ...

One of the most distinctive elements of Georgia O’Keeffe’s closely-cropped flower petals and sprawling Southwestern landscapes is her master color work. She layered and paired shades until they glowed ...

Artist John Sabraw working to create art from pigments sourced from the removal of iron oxide in a local waterway (all images by Jason Whalen/Fauna Creative, courtesy Rivers are Life and the artist) A ...

Demonstrates by use of a glass prism that white light is actually a combination of several colors, which can be reproduced by pigments. Shows how three primary colors can be mixed to make secondary ...

In Europe, before the Industrial Revolution and the invention of synthetic blue paints, artists used blue pigment—which was at times more expensive than gold—exceedingly rarely. Thanks to the high ...

For fifty years, a small stone sat on display in a German museum. Catalogued in the 1970s as a simple “oil lamp” from the end of the Ice Age, it drew little attention. But when archaeologists looked ...