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This is planet money from Nprdez.
The day that Stuart simple decided to become an artist, he was eight years old.
His mom took him to a museum in London, and from across the floor of the gallery, he saw this beacon of yellow.
Youve never seen color like that before.
The painting was sunflowers by van Gogh.
They just knocked me sideways, and I was literally shaking.
And I think it was the colors that were doing it.
To me.
Those colors are what inspired Stewart to become an artist.
These days, he makes giant installation pieces with bright yellow smiley faces made of steel.
Or he does these pop art collages with lots of neon colors.
Stewart often designs his art on the computer, which is why it was a big deal two years ago when all of his colors disappeared.
One day, I switched my laptop on, and all the colors in the files are black.
All the colors are gone.
And who had taken the colors?
A company called Pantone.