The brilliant history of color in art
By: Victoria Finlay
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781606064290
Subjects: Color in art; Colors; Art; Technique; Analysis; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes index
Table of contents: title: 1. Earth and fire. Manganese black ; Red ocher ; Egyptian blue ; Greek White ; Yellow ocher; title: 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; title: 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.