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Why artists used toxic cadmium yellow
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This heavy metal is notoriously toxic, yet classic painters decided it was an absolute necessity for their beautiful artwork. Cadmium brilliantly produces incredibly vivid shades of yellow and orange that vastly outshine much safer pigments. It firmly proves that historical artists were perfectly willing to wildly poison themselves just to paint a slightly better sunflower.
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