On: Has the world become less colourful?

[drewcoo]

> All we had was words and paintings.

If by "painting" you also mean things like lithographs[1] and magic lantern[2] shows and glazed ceramics and dyes used in textiles and rugs, then sure, all we had were words and paintings. I don't think most people would think of those when they thinking "paintings," though. And those are only the human-produced color anchors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_lantern

[strogonoff → drewcoo]

And drawings, and so on. I guess I should’ve written “visual art” instead of using painting as a catch-all term.