A friendly color, Green symbolizes renewal. It comforts, soothes and restores. Green embodies our reverence for nature and became the color to represent a social movement. In painting, green is not a primary color; rather, it is created by mixing yellow and blue. Green pigments have been used since antiquity primarily by the Egyptians in the form of natural earth and malachite. The Greeks introduced veridigris, one of the first artificial pigments. Thanks to chemistry, a new generation of greens was introduced in the late 18th century: cobalt, emerald and viridian green. Follow the evolution of the color Green below to see beautiful color palettes from the different decades.