Manganese black: Art in the Ice Age -- Red ocher: The sacred and dangerous in Australia -- Egyptian blue: King Tut's infrared transmitter -- Greek white: The myth of the white city -- Yellow ocher: ...
Two folds from an Astrolin Color Card pamphlet by Établissement Georget Fils Peintures Laquées et Vernis, Chantenay-Lès-Nantes (c. 1906), 6 3/10 x 3 3/4 inches (image courtesy Bibliothèque Forney, ...
What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...
The Living in Color exhibition at Dorothea Dix Park highlights more than 40 artists across multiple mediums. The exhibit is ...
Like many art movements—among them Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism—Orphism wasn’t named by the artists creating the work, but rather by a critic. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire first saw Robert ...