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).

holocaust red
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#E32636
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(227, 38, 54)
HSV (h, s, v)	(355°, 83%, 89%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(49, 142, 10°)
Source	[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

#E32636

holocaust red
#E32636

Alizarin crimson in human culture

Literature

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

Music

• 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.

Television

• 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).