HeyJaredPigments, Colors & Other Stories
An interdisciplinary look at color, art, cognition and the things that make us human.
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An education in the humanities can be your personal armor (opens the original)
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An interesting experience I had yesterday (for you, my fellow art historians and humanists out here).<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="3796" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Svmg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A
Color naming is not about “seeing” color, it is about “making” it (opens the original)
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Pigments under the skin: ancient and indigenous tattooing among men (opens the original)
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Pigment Tuesday: ultramarine blue (opens the original)
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Pigment Guide #7: oil paint (opens the original)
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