Title:
The brilliant history of color in art / Victoria Finlay.
Author:
Finlay, Victoria, author.
Publication Information:
Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2014]
©2014
Call Number:
N7432.7 .F56 2014
Abstract:
"Journey from the Ice Age to the Digital Age with a surprising cast of characters on this worldwide tour of color in art. Students will discover the strange, intriguing, and humorous stories of their favorite colors, the science behind them, and how they forever changed the courses of art and history. Big questions will pique your students' curiosity: Why is the sky blue? Why are there seven colors in the rainbow? What is art, anyway? The Brilliant History of Color in Art is also a treasure trove of world art, from cave paintings to Roman treasures and Chinese dragon scrolls; to works by Titian and Michelangelo, Monet and Kandinsky, Rothko and Hockney; to contemporary sculpture and graffiti art. Many of the book's 166 spectacular images are from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum."--Publisher's description.
ISBN:
9781606064290
Physical Description:
120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
1. Earth and fire. Manganese black ; Red ocher ; Egyptian blue ; Greek White ; Yellow ocher -- 2. Rocks, minerals, twigs, and bugs. Tyrian purple ; Cinnabar, vermilion, and minium ; Black ink ; Gold ; Green earth ; The age of canvas ; Ultramarine ; Cochineal ; Logwood black ; Cobalt ; Lead white ; Indigo ; Gainsborough blue ; Rose ; Light ; Titian blue ; Indian yellow ; Madder red ; Graphite ; Mummy brown -- 3. Modern colors. Mauve ; Prussian blue ; Emerald green ; Black and white and sepia ; Manganese violet ; Chrome yellow ; Patent blue, tartrazine, and rose bengal ; Cadmium yellow ; Lithol red ; International klein blue ; Orange 36 and violet 19 ; Painting with light.
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