Paintings are made from mud and a stick with hairs…
Pigments are the basis of all paints, and have been used for millennia. They are ground colored material. Early pigments were simply as ground earth or clay, and were made into paint with spit or fat. Modern pigments are often sophisticated masterpieces of chemical engineering.
This exhibit includes most important pigments used through the early 20th century.
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YESS! All of them!
Pigments through the Ages:
How Artists have colored our lives