Five-foot-by-five-foot square canvases painted in this color were the primary output of the last ten years of Ad Reinhardt's career.
Five-foot-by-five-foot square canvases painted in this color were the primary output of the last ten years of Ad Reinhardt's career. Bands and ovoids of this color are arranged at different points on the large canvas in the 150 paintings in Robert Motherwell's  Elegy to the Spanish Republic  series. Anish Kapoor controversially gained an exclusive license to make art with a (*)  newly developed shade of this color. A series of paintings named for this color includes  Fight with Cudgels  and was painted onto the walls of the "House of the Deaf Man". The title god takes a bite out of a smaller god in  Saturn Devouring His Son , one of Francisco Goya's paintings nicknamed for this color. The dress worn by Whistler's Mother is, for 10 points, what dark color?
Five-foot-by-five-foot square canvases painted in this color were the primary output of the last ten years of Ad Reinhardt's career.
black  [or  Vantablack ] 