help!!!!history of paints
Rob Eardley
I have to do an essay for my college art and design course about how
advances in art realted technologies have influenced artists over time and I
need to find out how paints and other media used to be manufactured....
basically I need a history of paint.....any links or info would be GREATLY
appreceated!!!
Thanks!
Rob Eardley
Nita Leland
Hope and Walch, The Color Compendium
Nita Leland (me), Exploring Color (a very brief survey--more detail is in
the other books)
Ralph Mayer, Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques 5th ed.
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Mayer Published by Faber and Faber. (I would imagine you would find a copy
in your college library) quite an informative book and there is a whole
section on pigments and stuff about paint mediums which I think you will
find useful
It is quite an interesting subject for example I understand that the reason
why the Virgin Mary appears in Blue in Renaissance paintings is because the
use of Lapis Lazuli i.e. ground up Sapphire was extremely expensive even
then and it's use was seen as an act of worship. In some ways this is lost
on a modern audience because French Ultramarine is dirt cheap by comparison
Many of the colours we use today weren't available to the Old Masters and it
can be argued this is why they used a layering technique and glazes so as to
get the maximum colour strength out of the basic mostly earth colours they
had available. Even Turner didn't have anywhere near the colour range that
we have available today and had to rely on glazes to achieve the brightest
possible colour. Which can be a disappointment if you have read about
Turner's use of colour seen reproduced work seen the poster worn the t-shirt
then realise the original paintings are nowhere near as bright as they are
reputed to be and look quite dull in comparison to modern printed media.
Which makes one realise that the dyes used in reproductions of paintings
have probably had a profound effect on our perception of art history.
One can also argue that Impressionism and many of the subsequent
developments in painting in the 20th Century have owed a great deal to paint
technology I believe that the development of synthetic AZO dyes in the 19th
Century were on factor in enabling artists to paint in pure colour. Also
colours such as Cadmium Yellow were not commercially available until the mid
1840s and Cadmium Red although in use in Europe as early as 1907 didn't
become available in the US until around 1919 (after WW1). This also probably
explains why Van Gogh liked sunflowers and wasn't known for his red roses
but perhaps I'm being a little cynical.
However it can certainly be argued that paint technology has had a profound
effect on art history even Pop Art owes a great deal to the development of
Acrylic paints and adhesives such as PVA. and I think you will find there is
a wealth of examples on this topic.
Nick
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Rob Eardley
that info was excellent...more than I could've hoped for!
Cheers!
Rob Eardley
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Ridama
artists materials guide".This will give you all the info you need.
Roughly this is the way it goes.Artist first used egg tempera for fine
art on panels of wood.Then the Vaneck bros.,legend has it,were the first to
glaze transparent films of oil color over a tempera underpainting.After others
joined this school of art(like thinking artist),This way of painting evolved
into glazing in oils,using partial brushwork-to
a more direct style of realism using more brushwork as more pigments were
discovered.
Remember up until Rembrandt,Velazquez,Rubens etc.,only a few color pigments wre
used.They were less mobile(no tubes).Glazing was also used to get certain color
effects as well as translucent shadow effects.Then about the time of
Constable(early 18th-19th cent.
english,The french Barbizon painters.Artist began to use pigments ground in oil
and stored in animal bladders(pre-tin tubes)This influenced on location
work.Then advances explode,Tin tubes,plus new opaque cadmium colors,plus
photography,all came along at about the same time mid-19th century.This more
than anything else begat the french impressionist.We pretty much go on from
there............
Also through in mural painting over the years.Fresco(dry pigments
applied into wet lime plaster for those ageless european murals).
Hope this
helps.....................................................................
.........................Rick