Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...

From the cave paintings of prehistoric times to the masterpieces of today, creating art with paint seems to be a fundamental urge in humans. The key to paint is the pigment, the substance that gives a ...

Since 2019, researchers have been analyzing the chemical composition of the materials used to create Rembrandt's masterpiece, The Night Watch, as part of the Rijksmuseum's ongoing Operation Night ...

The prehistoric paint box and its pigment was found in a palaeolithic riverside campsite. As well as the paintbox itself, archaeologists also found numerous stone tools and arrowheads - and a ring of ...

In a “ground-breaking” study, researchers have identified a “ vivid blue mineral pigment azurite” on a 13,000-year-old stone in Germany, according to a Sept. 29 news release from Aarhus University.

Forensics teams working within police departments frequently need to analyze and identify samples for various reasons. For example, chips of paint can often be deposited at the scene of a crime and ...

A pigment package designed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to slow discoloration of the exterior coating on surface ships has started to make its way into the fleet and is producing early, ...

For fifty years, a small stone sat on display in a German museum. Catalogued in the 1970s as a simple “oil lamp” from the end ...

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues ...

Blue residue on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact, long believed to be an oil lamp, may paint a new picture of Paleolithic art and culture ...

Close examination of these chips, labeled according to their blue, yellow or red color, that once belonged to art on the Berlin Wall reveals brushstrokes, multiple layers and the pigments used. Street ...