2500 pages of free content are available only online without ads registration or fees. Broken color broken color was first used by manet and the impressionists in 19th century french painting where color was applied in small dabs as opposed to the traditional method of smoothly blending colors and values lights and darks togetherthis method results in more of a patchwork effect where the dabs render the facets of light on forms andor the planes of the forms volume.