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Three Colors: Coomassie Brilliant Blue, Sudan I and Somalia Yellow
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 44, Number 1, February 2011
- pp. 86-87
- Article
- Additional Information
By taking the lab into the studio, the artist describes in this article the first use of industrial chemical dyes with his paintings or dye-paintings. A brief explanation of this technique in art and the production process is given, together with a short introduction and history on chemical dyes, their toxicity and pigments.