But that riot of color that artists squeezed from their paint tubes isn’t necessarily what museum goers see today: cadmium yellow’s brilliance ... wavelengths of light. That allowed the ...

Edvard Munch’s 1910 version of this iconic artwork has rarely been displayed since 2006 because the painting’s cadmium sulfide pigments are so fragile. Cadmium yellow brushstrokes in the sky ...

In the background, the bright, intense yellow of Femme ... of this particular paint at a later stage in the history of cadmium yellow pigment production. To shed light on the issue, the ...