You’ve probably heard of Vantablack, the black that was once the blackest in the world, but you probably haven’t heard of the war it started between two artists - Stuart Semple & Anish Kapoor.
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References & Further Reading
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artist-only-person-banned-using-worlds-pinkest-pink-180961464/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzVmtbPOrM
- https://www.surreynanosystems.com/about/vantablack
- https://www.wired.com/story/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-semple/
- https://news.mit.edu/2019/blackest-black-material-cnt-0913
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-art-painting-delacroix-pigment-ancient-Egypt
- https://culturehustle.com/
- https://www.archpaper.com/2017/07/anish-kapoor-blackest-black/
- http://stuartsemple.com/about/
- https://www.livescience.com/32559-why-do-we-see-in-color.html
- https://science.howstuffworks.com/vantablack.htm
- https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/garden/what-you-can-do-with-vantablack-the-darkest-material-ever-made.html
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