El regne de la llum

Abstract

The Reign of Light.
In the 19th century, the palettes of artists became an explosion of bright colour, culminating in the brilliant canvases of the Impressionists and their successors. This bold use of colour was ultimately a vehicle for the emergence of abstract art in the early 20th century, where colour alone was sometimes the painter’s subject. It was all made possible by the inventiveness of the 19th-century chemists, who discovered new ways to combine nature’s elements into dazzling materials for the artist.