
“The Big Black was the first painting in the Black Light series. Black is the presence of all color. White is the absence of color. I worked with those ideas of color for many years, and I still do. Except I stopped working in oil paint – because I was allergic.) A lot of artists got sick from using oil paint and acrylic paint became very important. The intensity of color was made by first adding white and then adding black to darken the hue and still keep the luminosity.”~Faith Ringgold