Art in colours

(Credit: Wikimedia)
Art in colours
The colour of debauchery
By Kelly Grovier
(Credit: Wikimedia)
Art in colours
The murky history of the colour yellow
By Kelly Grovier
lmmaculate Conception by Baltasar de Echave (Credit: Museo Nacional de Arte de Mexico)
Art in colours
The rare blue the Maya invented
By Devon Van Houten Maldonado
(Credit: Wikimedia)
Art in colours
The disgusting origins of purple
By Kelly Grovier
The Arnolfini Portrait (Credit: Getty Images)
Art in colours
The colour that means life and death
By Kelly Grovier
Credit: Alamy
Art in colours
The shady past of the colour pink
By Kelly Grovier
(Credit: Alamy)
Art in colours
The pigment made of human remains
By Kelly Grovier
Kazimir Malevich painted his Black Square in 1915 – in 2015 microscopic examination revealed a racist joke within (Credit: Alamy)
Art
The artwork that hid a racist message
By Kelly Grovier
Flaming June (Credit: Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.)
Art
The colour that comes from volcanoes
By Kelly Grovier
An array of colourful tiles stretches across these shapes, foreshadowing today’s colour charts (Credit: Yale University Art Gallery)
Art
The painting that revolutionised colour
By Kelly Grovier
Saint Jerome as Scholar by El Greco, 1610 (Credit: Alamy)
Art
The insect that painted Europe red
By Devon Van Houten Maldonado
(Credit: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Art
When the Parthenon had dazzling colours
By Natalie Haynes
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