People used red and black for anger; brown, green, and ochre for disgust; black, gray, and blue for fear; and yellow, orange, cyan, and pink for joy and wonder.

“Red Yellow Blue” coincides with Close’s 75th birthday year, and it’s rare and exciting to see an artist of this vintage going deeper and looser—having and giving viewers so much fun.

The notorious painting Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III by American artist Barnett Newman (1905-1970) is back on display at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. The painting which was slashed by a ...

Mondrian’s most expensive work at auction is Composition No III, from 1929, also featuring grids of primary colors with black lines.It sold for US$50.6 million at Sotheby’s in New York in 2015 ...

Jackson Arn looks at how the color has been used in works by Johannes Vermeer, Mark Rothko, J. M. W. Turner, Joan Mitchell, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.