THE SYNTAX OF COLOR

Summary: This essay encapsulates the wide range of white pigments available to artists starting with lead-based substances and continuing to modern form of white pigments that replaced lead.  Keywords: Titanium White, Lead White, Flake White, Cremnitz White. Since winter has taken its icy grip on over half of the United States, the pigment that is used to represent snow and cold the best is the topic of this Syntax article. Collage of white paints used in advertising taken fr

Summary:  Yves Klein Blue is a fascinating art concept, making the detective work to fully understand it both intriguing and frustrating....

Summary: The Spoils of Our Labors - Indanthrone Blue explores the discovery of pigment manufacturers have used to add a blue hue to a...

Summary: Johann Gahn, an 18th-century chemist, discovered an amazing variety of materials that are still in use today. Read how this...

Summary: Pyrrole Red is one of a number of pigments that were accidentally discovered. In this essay, take a trip from East Lansing,...

Part 2 Summary: Understanding something about solvents arms us with the knowledge that can help us make artwork as safely as possible....

Summary: Modern life is filled with complex things. Maintaining a basic understanding of the nature of materials provides us with...

Summary: Documents describing the origin of a pigment can consume multiple pages of explanatory facts or be stated in merely one...

Summary: The invention of mauve by William Henry Perkins in 1856 from coal tar initiated the study of aniline chemistry. A wide variety...

Summary: Ponder this idea. What if the colors we use as artists had no names or were forbidden to have names? Make believe that we are...

Summary: Pigments with the same Color Index name but appearing to be a different hue is confusing for the consumer. Abiding by the Color...

Summary: Pigments with the same Color Index name but appearing to be a different hue is confusing for the consumer. Abiding by the Color...