Cadmium Yellow 

Editor: Here we have "Cadmium Yellow," not dated, by Winsor & Newton. It's a small jar of pigment. What strikes you most about this object? Curator: Its existence questions authorship. Winsor & Newton, a manufacturer, becomes the artist. The focus shifts to the industrial processes that bring us the materials with which we create. The jar becomes a readymade, reflecting on art's relationship to labor and consumerism. Editor: So, its artistic value lies in its manufactured nature? Curator: Precisely. It asks us to consider how the means of art production, often overlooked, are integral to art's meaning. Materiality and context become the focus, democratizing art by removing the artist's hand as the sole source of value. Editor: That definitely gives me a new perspective to consider. Thanks!