Magenta - Orange
by Nikolyn McDonald
Title
Magenta - Orange
Artist
Nikolyn McDonald
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Photograph
Description
This post was painted exactly the colors you see here: magenta (or magenta hot pink as our granddaughter is fond of calling the purplish-red on the bottom) and orange. The textures of the wood of this architectural detail show through clearly, but it is the colors that stand out and catch the eye.
Magenta is one of the four colors of ink used in color printing; it is made of equal parts of red and blue. Its name comes from a town of the same name in Italy - or rather from a battle between the French and Austrians that was fought there and in which the French were the victors. It won't surprise you to learn that the chemist who patented the color, François-Emmanuel Verguin, was French.
Orange is a mixture of yellow and red, a secondary color named after the fruit. In nature, whether in fruits and vegetables or in autumn leaves, the color comes from carotenes, a photosynthetic pigment.
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October 19th, 2017
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