Colours of Art

The Story of Art in 80 Palettes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes. For these pieces, colour is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas) but the fundamental secret to their success. Colour allows artists to express their individuality, evoke certain moods and portray positive or negative subliminal messages. And throughout history the greatest of artists have experimented with new pigments and new technologies to lead movements and deliver masterpieces. But as something so cardinal, we sometimes forget how poignant colour palettes can be, and how much they can tell us.When Vermeer painted The Milkmaid, the amount of ultramarine he could use was written in the contract. How did that affect how he used it? When Turner experimented with Indian Yellow, he captured roaring flames that brought his paintings to life. If he had used a more ordinary yellow, would he have created something so extraordinary? And how did Warhol throw away the rulebook to change what colour could achieve? Structured chronologically, Colours of Art provides a fun, intelligent and visually engaging look at the greatest artistic palettes in art history – from Rafael’s use of perspective and Vermeer’s ultramarine, to Andy Warhol’s hot pinks and Lisa Brice’s blue women. Colours of Art offers a refreshing take on the subject and acts as a primer for artists, designers and art lovers who want to look at art history from a different perspective.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-02
Mått250 x 20 x 190 mm
Vikt1 060 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagQuarto Publishing PLC
ISBN9780711258044

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Introduction 1. First impressions Stone Age, Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome Feature: The nature of colour – how artists created natural colours. Horses, from the Chauvet cave near the Pont d’ArcBison, from AltamiraNebamun Hunting Birds, from the tomb of NebamunTomb of the Diver2. Ordering the world The RenaissanceFeature: A roaring trade – on the colour trade and the cost/availability of coloursLamentation, GiottoSaint Ansanus Altarpiece, Simone Martini and Lippo MemmiThe Wilton DiptychSaints Jerome and John the Baptist, MasaccioPortrait of a Man with a Turban, Jan van EyckThe Magdalen Reading, Rogier Van der WeydenThe Birth of Venus, Sandro BotticelliThe Rape of Europa, TitianPhilip II, Sofonisba AnguissolaPortrait of Bianca Degli Utili Maselli surrounded by six of her children, Lavinia Fontana 3. Cutting loose Baroque to RococoFeature: The colour wheel – on Isaac Newton’s discovery of the colour spectrum, and his error – trusting maths over the sensations of the eyeRest on the Flight into Egypt, CaravaggioJudith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, Artemisia GentileschiThe Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus), Diego VelázquezRising and Setting of the Sun, François BoucherColour, Angelica KauffmanSelf-Portrait with Straw Hat, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun 4. Keeping it real RealismFeature: Risky business – on poisonous colours and artists risking their lives for their work.Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke and Cherries, Clara PeetersA Woman Bathing in a Stream, Rembrandt van RijnThe Goldfinch, Carel FabritiusThe Milkmaid, Johannes VermeerFlowers in a Vase, Rachel Ruysch 5. Two sides of a coin Neoclassicism to RomanticismFeature: How we see colour – on Goethe’s new symmetrical colour wheel and physiological theories.Albion Rose, William BlakePortrait of a Negress, Marie-Guillemine BenoistOrphan Girl at the Cemetery, Eugène DelacroixThe Burning of the Houses of Parliament , Joseph Mallord William TurnerComtesse d’Haussonville, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 6. Let there be light The Impressionist RevolutionFeature: Colour chemistry – on the industrialisation of colour and the making of synthetic pigments.Two Women Chatting by the Sea, Camille PissarroYoung Woman with Peonies, Frédéric BazilleSymphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, by James Abbott McNeill WhistlerBerthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, Édouard ManetIn the Country (After Lunch), Berthe MorisotCombing the Hair, Edgar DegasThe Child’s Bath, Mary CassattWaterloo Bridge, Blurred Sun, Claude Monet 7. On the edge of the spectrum Post-Impressionists, Pre-Raphaelites, Les Nabis, SurrealistsFeature: Colour decorum – on the relativity of colour and its use and reception in different cultural contexts. (An opportunity to touch on non-Western art.)Night and Sleep, Evelyn de MorganThe Suitor, Édouard VuillardThe Visit, Félix VallottonInterior. Strandgade 30, Vilhelm HammershoiBarbarian Tales, Paul GauguinThe Life, Pablo PicassoThe Green Blouse, Pierre BonnardThe Two Fridas, Frida KahloThe Old Maids, Leonora Carrington 8. Express yourself Expressionism and FauvismFeature: The psychology of colour – on colour communicating and sparking emotion.Two Crabs, Vincent van GoghThe Scream, Edvard MunchSelf-portrait on Sixth Wedding Anniversary, Paula Modersohn-BeckerGroup X, No.1, Altarpiece, Hilma af KlintThe Yellow Scale, František KupkaThe Dessert: Harmony in Red, Henri MatisseSeated Woman with Legs Drawn Up (Adele Herms), Egon SchieleStill Life with Blackening Apples, by Helene Schjerfbeck 9. Seeing it feelingly Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field PaintingFeature: Properties of colour – on hue, intensity and tone, and the changing precedence of each throughout art historyElectric Prisms, Sonia DelaunayMountains and Sea, Helen FrankenthalerBird Talk, Lee KrasnerNo. 11 (Untitled), Mark RothkoOcean Park #79, Richard Diebenkorn 10. Show some restraint Monochrome and MinimalismFeature: The Pantone palette – on attempts to create a universal colour language. Plus Pantone’s predecessors, eg Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814).Homage to the Square: Apparition, Joseph AlbersThe Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II, Frank StellaIKB 79, Yves KleinWhite Stone, Agnes Martin 11. By popular demand Pop Art to The Pictures GenerationFeature: Anything is possible – on new materials and colour experimentation outside of the medium of painting.Colour Her Gone, Pauline BotyIce Cream, Evelyne AxellUntitled (Your Body is a Battleground), Barbara KrugerA Bigger Splash, David HockneyLadies and Gentlemen (Iris), Andy Warhol 12. Here and Now Contemporary art from the 1970sFeature: The colour of art history – on artists painting black figures into the mostly white canon.Self-Portrait, Alice NeelSelf-Portrait, BasquiatUntitled, Etel AdnanTo Tell Them There It’s Got To, Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeSpinners (Moths and Spiders Webs), Kiki SmithSlaughter of the Innocents (They Might be Guilty of Something), Kara WalkerShantavia Beal II, Kehinde WileyBoucher’s Flesh, Flora YukhnovichThe Ruling Class (Eshu), Toyin Ojih OdutolaSabine, Alison WattUntitled, Lisa Brice Index Further reading Picture credits Acknowledgements