Recently during my daily practice of looking at art, I was poking around various pages at the Art Institute of Chicago, and I came across this article about Kinds of Red.
It had thumbnails of some beautiful works - I was expecially taken with the red diacritics in the 1000-year-old Qur'an, and the advertisement by Elsa Kula.
But what delighted me the very most was learning about the website's feature that lets you filter images by color. The article links to artworks matching a nice bright red as an example.
It's easy to find works featuring other colors, like a strong yellow (including this envelope by Edward Gorey), a deep green, and a nice light blue. You get a wonderful range of artists and time periods to explore - the light blue includes pieces by Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns, plus a Hiroshige print from 1834 and a Daumier from 1846.
It's a delightful way to find new artists and works to view, and I'm so glad the writers (Thea Liberty Nichols, Sylvia Wu, Lorien Yonker, and Nathalie Silva ) decided to share that feature along with their exploration of lovely red works.