cadmium red

American  

noun

1. a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.

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Etymology

Origin of cadmium red

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

While the landscapes are plenty attractive—cadmium red mountains, fiery fields and rocky terrain dominate—there’s little that distinguishes them from his other depictions of nature, and in the end they come off as so many pretty pictures.

From The Wall Street Journal

The works from her “Chimes at Midnight” series, which form her sensational show in Chelsea, deftly layer references to Richard Serra’s rusted hot-rolled steel, John Chamberlain’s crumpled car bodies and Donald Judd’s perfectionism as well as his signature color, cadmium red light, to name just the most obvious.

From New York Times

It means those 400 broken treaties aren’t your concern; they’re just a line in an old textbook as you wave a pennant and wear your old cap with Chief Wahoo on it, that beaked-nose grinning cartoonized face in livid cadmium red.

From Washington Post

These strange, clunky pictures, in a palette dominated by cadmium red, also included bare lightbulbs, the soles of shoes, buildings and bricks.

From Washington Post

We sat in the center of the space where Blinky Palermo’s “To the People of New York City” was on view, surrounded on all sides by the series of black, cadmium red, and cadmium yellow panels, like methodically rearranged German flags.

From The New Yorker