From Minerals to Art.(Brief Article)

From: Rocks & Minerals | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: ROBINSON, SUSAN | Copyright information

The great majority of pigments we use today for art and coloring mediums are synthetically produced. Paints are easily obtained with minimum effort by simply purchasing them from an art supply store; however, it was not always this way. Until the twentieth century, most pigments were difficult to obtain and required painstaking refinement. Raw materials were prepared by the colormakers, who refined pigments to their richest and purest form by chemical and physical means. Colormen w...

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