Anish Kapoor has the exclusive rights to paint using Vantablack,the blackest black that has ever existed but other artists are keen to use itColour is precious. Colour can drive you crazy – particularly if you are an artist. The colours that artists use can be as expensive as gold – which installationist Richard Wright painted on to a wall in Tate Britain to win the Turner prize - or as deadly as arsenic, which in the Romantic age was used to make the magnificent but deadly Scheele Green.
The colour currently ruffling artistic temperaments is black - but not just any black. This is the blackest black ever. Vantablack, and developed by British company NanoSystems to use on stealth satellites reflects almost no light at all.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com