These can expand and contract quickly, and each is filled with
a pigment of a particular color.
In the prehistoric period,
the pigment of this particular color was extracted from ochre, a natural clay earth pigment, and was used for cave paintings.
Not exact matches
Unlike
pigments, which create
color by absorbing some wavelengths
of light and reflecting the rest, the nanostructures are shaped so that they physically bend and scatter light in different directions, sending
particular colors back to our eyes.
That
particular work is all
colored black, but segmented into distinct fields by a precisely ruled stripe
of more reflective
pigment running through the two panels placed together.