Color is one of the most immediate ways we connect with a painting, yet its role reaches far beyond what we first perceive, this is not a secret. It may seem self-evident that color is essential to art—after all, what is a painting without it? And yet, the history of art itself gently challenges this assumption. Think, for instance, of Lucio Fontana, the Italian artist who radically redefined the surface of painting. In his Concetti Spaziali , Fontana cut through the canvas,