Magna paints, a line of
acrylic paints developed by
Leonard Bocour[?] and
Harry Levison[?] in
1947 and reformulated in
1960, are pigments ground in an acrylic resin with
solvents and a
plasticizer. Unlike modern water-based acrylics, Magna is miscible with
turpentine and mineral spirits and dries rapidly to a mat finish. It was used by
Jackson Pollock and
Roy Lichtenstein.