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The earliest history of human painting with colors can be traced back to the Paleolithic Age. According to research, more than 40,000 years ago BC, humans had heated loess to make red pigment. The earliest pigments used for human body decoration were red clay and carbon black. The ancient Egyptians made great contributions to the manufacture of pigments. They used ochre and white mud as the basis of murals a long time ago, grinded green with malachite stone, made red with realgar, and artificially synthesized blue with silicate copper and calcite to invent the earliest synthetic pigment, which was named Egyptian blue by the Romans. The Greeks first painted with lead and white. However, in the naive era of pigment manufacturing, some rare pigments are hard to get, and brightly colored pigments and dyes are often regarded as exclusive luxury goods of the aristocratic class. According to ancient Rome, only imperial dignitaries were allowed to wear purple, which should be extracted from the sex hormone glands of Mediterranean bone snails. Only about 10 thousand bone snails can be collected to make about one gram of purple raw materials, and the difficulty and scale of collection and production can be imagined. In the East, the West and other parts of the world, almost all early painting pigments were made by painters at that time, or painters or painters, and were ground by themselves or their assistants. Because it takes time and energy to make pigments, these unimportant tasks will be completed by apprentices under the guidance of teachers in a painter's workshop with a certain scale in the later stage. In the era when painting is an important skill, the formulas and production methods of some painting materials are regarded as secret skills by painters and are not taught to the outside world. /kloc-in the 0/7th century, Europe began to have a small-scale pigment manufacturing industry. At that time, it was in the same trade association as the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, and later it gradually developed into a specialized pigment industry. In the history of Europe and China, many alchemists were often the discoverers and manufacturers of new pigments. Although they didn't find a panacea for immortality, they accidentally discovered some important colors in the process of alchemy. Later, these discoveries were improved and made into classic painting pigments such as cinnabar, red lead and blue. The cooperation between pigment producers and painters has always been natural and close. 1664, in the heyday of Dutch painting, a painter's association produced a high-quality oil painting pigment, which is the predecessor of the earliest oil painting pigment brand in history-the oil painting pigment hand-made by the old Dutch brand, and this pigment has maintained the tradition of hand-made until now. 1720, La Creff, the owner of a Paris paint and spice shop, grinds and processes paints for his neighbor painter Xia Erdan, who was still in a difficult situation. Later, they simply set up a workshop specializing in making pigments, which was inherited by the descendants of La Creff and developed into raffarin Bourgeois Company, becoming one of the most famous artistic pigment brands in the world today. Other important pigment brands put into production include 1783 British Delaroni and 1832 Wensa Newton. Before the invention of lead-tin hose, western oil painting pigments were put in natural containers such as shells or small bags made of pig urine. Later syringes and glass bottles were used. Watercolor pigment is made into a block of dry pigment, which is dissolved and diluted with water when used, but it is extremely inconvenient to use and store. 1840 after the invention of lead-tin hose, the industrial production of pigments has developed greatly. Alessandro Lafaran, the descendant of Laklev mentioned above, obtained a patent for the invention of metal hose pigment with spiral nozzle in 1865, which further popularized the painting pigment and promoted the rise of external light sketching and the birth of impressionist painting in a certain sense. The main companies that produced pigments in Europe in the early stage are Brooks Company (1865), Neihill Company (1887), Smick Company (188 1) and Terrence Company (1899). In the East, the pigment production of traditional Chinese painting has a long history. Although there are few traces of early paintings, the use level of pigments and dyes can be roughly inferred from the social, economic and cultural development at that time and the achievements made in bronze, ceramics, lacquerware and textile industry. More than 200 years BC, the painting colors on the mural fragments in Qin and Han dynasties have been red, vermilion, black, brown, azurite and stone green. Cinnabar, red lead, carbon black and lead white were also used in the painting pigments of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were more and more colorful pigments in China's paintings, which made great progress in Dunhuang art later. According to research and analysis, the pigments used in Dunhuang murals are cinnabar, red earth, realgar, red lead, iron red, rouge and cinnabar, while in green there are azurol (azurite) and Buddha blue (lapis lazuli) from Central Asia, and in yellow there are gamboge and so on. The white used at that time was also lead white, and the auxiliary materials were gypsum, chalk and kaolin. Dunhuang murals also use a large number of decorative materials such as gold, silver, mica and seasonality. According to statistics, there were more than 40 kinds of pigments used at that time, of which more than 20 kinds were used as early as the Northern Wei Dynasty in 400 BC. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yanyuan not only listed the main pigments commonly used at that time, but also specified the origin and processing methods in detail. It can be said that China's chemical technology and pigment preparation skills are also in a leading position in the world. However, until entering the modern society, the production of painting pigments in China has always maintained the workshop style and the painter's own processing methods. With the spread of western painting to the east at the beginning of19th century, China's independent national painting industry began to sprout. 19 19 years, several industrialists and painters cooperated to set up Marley craft factory in Shanghai and began to produce Matou brand watercolors and poster colors. This is the origin of today's Marley brand art paint, which can also be said to be the beginning of modern art paint manufacturing in China. 1933, Shanghai Jincheng Craft Factory developed and produced the first batch of domestic Eagle brand oil painting pigments. In 1950s, Marley Craft Factory merged with Jincheng Craft Factory to establish Shanghai Art Paint Factory, which specializes in producing Matou brand pigments. After the reform and opening-up, Shanghai Fine Arts Paint Factory was transformed into a Sino-foreign joint venture maryse Company. Nowadays, Marley brand painting materials, which mainly focus on art coatings, have developed into three series: MASTER, MARIE'S Marley and MARTOL Matou, producing more than 2000 kinds of painting materials in more than a dozen product categories, becoming a first-class and world-renowned art coating brand in China, with a domestic market share of over 60% and the output ranking first in the world. At present, other domestic pigment production enterprises are constantly adjusting their strategies, establishing their own advantages and product positioning, strengthening their contacts with various art colleges and artists, seeking development opportunities, carrying out international cooperation, improving quality and developing new products, thus forming a competitive and cooperative situation in modern China art coatings industry.