Black
In light, black is the absence of all color. It is a shade. In painting, however, black pigment is the combination of all colors. In heraldry, black is called "sable". It is the opposite of white. No color can have the same level of dark pigmentation without turning itself into black. It appears as a dark shade that can reflect light into the rainbow.
In science, an object that is fully black would absorb all the light that hits it. Because this object would not reflect any light, the human eye would not see any colors coming from that object, and would see this object as black.
A way to create black objects is to mix pigments. A pigment works by reflecting only the color of other colored objects because they absorb more light.
Meaning of black
Black is associated with a range of concepts, from power, elegance, formality, safety, birth, and male to death, crime, female, evil and mystery. Black is the darkest color there is. Black, along with gray and white, is a neutral color. This means that it is not a hot color or a cool color.
Black is a color seen with fear and the unknown. It can have a bad meaning (blackbird, black bunny) or a good meaning ('in the black', 'black is beautiful'). Black can stand for strength and boldness. It can be a formal, elegant and high-class color (black tie, black Mercedes)[source?].
Black Media
- Lascaux, Megaloceros.jpg
Megaloceros cave art at Lascaux
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Statue of Anubis, guardian of the underworld, from the tomb of Tutankhamun
- Akhilleus Aias MGEt 16757.jpg
Greek black-figure pottery. Ajax and Achilles playing a game, about 540–530 BC. Vatican Museums
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Black cats have been accused for centuries of being the familiar spirits of witches or of bringing bad luck.
American Pilgrims in New England going to church, George Henry Boughton, 1867
- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) - Wheat Field with Crows (1890).jpg
Wheat Field with Crows (1890), one of Vincent van Gogh's last paintings
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Vantablack was the blackest substance known until 2019.
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Japanese men traditionally wear a black kimono with some white decoration on their wedding day
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Hussar from Husaren-Regiment Nr.5 (von Ruesch) in 1744 with the Totenkopf on the mirliton (ger. Flügelmütze).