For photo opportunities Vantablack look particularly impressive. Covered with pigment, the object loses the visual three-dimensionality, because there is no glare, no reflections, giving the eye a representation of the form. Instead of a ball in the photo will remain flat black hole — as if cut from black silhouette paper. It is so impressive that the behavior of Anish Kapoor can understand. He has issued an exclusive use Vantablack, to prevent anyone else from artists the opportunity to use the supermaterial. Act rational, but dirty. Other artists protested and began to "say Hello" British sculptor: new paint is often advertised as "allow all except Anish Kapoor".

provided that the Black dye 2.0 is advertised that way. It was invented by the artist Stuart Semple (Stuart Semple). Black 2.0 called the black and matte dye-in-class. There are no nanotubes, and it is, of course, not as good as Vantablack. But he, too, can transform almost in a "black hole" any three-dimensional object, which they will cover. As evidence of the artist-изобретатель Sample publishes photos of sculptures rubber unicorns, covered in Black 2.0. Glare, alas, there is. But they are subtle. Unicorns really turned into black silhouettes.

Black 2.0 is applied like normal paint, on any surface, and does not require special qualification — unlike Vantablack, which requires almost laboratory conditions. Besides 2.0 will be a lot of Black on the pocket. A vial with a volume of 150 ml is online approximately 840 rubles for our money.

the Struggle for black black — is yet interesting sport, which was fun to watch from the sidelines. But the better the result, samoubistvom it for art. If the object does not reflect light, then it is useless to take pictures. And who does not like modern artists know that art that cannot be shown on instagram, today is almost doomed to obscurity. Maybe it is better for them to miss Kapoor ahead and give it to suffer with an exclusive Vantablack in the modern media space?

Sources: culturehustle.com, news.artnet.com, artinvestment.ru