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Divine blue
Sensual red
Deathly green
Glistening gold
These four colours tell the story of art in a way that few other elements can. From the pigments used to make them – sometimes wildly expensive, like ultramarine, or dangerously toxic, like emerald green – to the varied and changing meanings applied to them, these colours grant us access to fascinating stories, both of individual works of art and the world in which they were created.
Sensual red
Deathly green
Glistening gold
These four colours tell the story of art in a way that few other elements can. From the pigments used to make them – sometimes wildly expensive, like ultramarine, or dangerously toxic, like emerald green – to the varied and changing meanings applied to them, these colours grant us access to fascinating stories, both of individual works of art and the world in which they were created.
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