Pigments determine the colour of the paint, the lightfastness and the opacity or transparency. All other properties of a paint are determ...
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White, colour or no colour, the colour of purity, the divine and life itself. But depending on where you are in the world, also the colou...
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The history of the wonderful red-orange vermillion has some black undertones. The colour was for a long time extracted from the highly po...
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Ultramarine is a colour that has appealed to one’s imagination since the early Middle Ages. These days it is impossible to imagine the st...
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Renowned masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Rubens already often used, in ‘lacquered form’, Stil de grain yellow, brown and green. Th...
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Since ancient times ochre has been used all over the world for various purposes. Diverse shades of the colour can be seen in, for example...
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As one of the primary colours, Magenta is now an essential part of art painting. The dye was developed chemically in 1856 and owes its na...
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The pigment Indigo was already popular among artists early on in history. First among the Romans and later, particularly between the 14th...
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For a long time, it was thought that Indian yellow was derived from the urine of Indian cows. But the mystery surrounding the origins of ...
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The beautiful golden yellow was already used in the Middle Ages to colour in ornamental letters and illustrations. The transparent colour...
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The specific colour of a paint, indicated by names such as yellow light, yellow dark, carmine red or ultramarine blue, is determined by t...
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Primary colours (yellow, red and blue) are colours that you cannot create by mixing other colours with each other. Vincent van Gogh was c...
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