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Van Gogh apparently mixed it with blues to create purple for Irises. But geranium lake is highly sensitive to light. “That’s why, currently, the irises appear blue, because that red component ...

Digital color reconstruction of the original painting (right) What the research team discovered, Ormond and Patterson said, was that van Gogh achieved a violet color by mixing blue with a red ...