Alizarin crimson (color)

Alizarin crimson is a red color that is biased slightly more towards purple than towards orange on the color wheel. It is named after the organic dye alizarin, found in the madder plant, and the related synthetic lake pigment alizarin crimson (PR83 in the Color Index).

Alizarin Crimson

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#E32636
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(227, 38, 54)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 83, 76, 11)
HSV (h, s, v)	(354.9°, 83.3%, 89%)
Source	^[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

#E32636

Alizarin Crimson
#E32636

In human culture

Alizarin Belvedon, painter and son of renowned painter Galena Borochova and art dealer Raymond Belvedon, in Jilly Cooper's novel Pandora.

It is one of the colors listed by Donovan in his song, Wear Your Love Like Heaven (although he mispronounces it as "alizarian").
It is mentioned in Karlheinz Stockhausen's 1966/67 musical composition Hymnen, where it is included in a spoken fugue where the names of dozens of different shades of red are intermingled as a symbol of the various forms of Communism that existed on the planet at that time.

Alizarin crimson was often seen on the palettes of Bob Ross (on his show The Joy of Painting) and Bill Alexander (on his show The Magic World of Oil Painting).

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

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