alizarin crimson

noun

: rose madder sense 2b

Orr often primes her canvases with lead white, which she says creates a luminosity underneath the paint. She uses small sable brushes and a palette that includes titanium white, … alizarin crimson, … and yellow ochre.

—M. Stephen Doherty, American Artist, December 1992

Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

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