Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history by pairing 80 carefully curated artworks with infographic palettes. For these pieces, colour is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas) but the fundamental secret to their success.

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1. Verfasser:	Ashby, Chloë (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Frances Lincoln 2022
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Kolorit Malerei Farbe
Zusammenfassung:	Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history by pairing 80 carefully curated artworks with infographic palettes. For these pieces, colour is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas) but the fundamental secret to their success. Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction: Colour me in -- First impressions: Prehistoric and ancient art -- Leading the charge -- Prehistoric polychrome -- The nature of colour -- Into the wild -- Full of flavour -- Ordering the world: The Renaissance -- Blue-sky thinking -- Go for gold -- Reserved for the Virgin's robes -- Saints in red -- Pioneer of oil paint -- A roaring trade -- In the balance -- Watch it glimmer -- Port of opportunities -- Change of dress -- Family portrait -- Cutting loose: Baroque and Rococo -- Theatre of light and dark -- Fan the flames -- Mirror, mirror -- The colour wheel -- The politics of pink -- Taste the rainbow -- Colour correct -- Keeping it real: 17th-century Dutch painting -- Good enough to eat -- Stream of consciousness -- Special effects -- Risky business -- Colour in the contract -- Brush with death -- Two sides of a coin: Neoclassicism and Romanticism -- The colour spectrum -- Political palette -- Oh, what a feeling -- How we see colour -- On fire -- Academic approach -- Let there be light: Impressionism -- Tropical light -- Garden variety -- In harmony -- Paint it black -- Colour chemistry -- In praise of paint -- Internationally inspired -- Hot head -- Get some air -- On the edge of the spectrum: From Pre-Raphaelites to Post-Impressionists -- Think pink -- Letting colour loose -- Artist's block -- Shades of grey -- Troubled dreams -- Colour communication -- Feeling blue -- Splendour of colour -- At first blush -- In life, as in art -- Surrealist tea party -- Express yourself: Expressionism -- In sickness, in health -- Let it all out -- Probing portrait -- That's the spirit -- The psychology of colour -- Sun is shining -- Fresh coat -- Walk this way -- Splash of colour -- Death and decay -- Seeing it feelingly: Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field painting -- Twist and shout -- Soak and stain.
Beschreibung:	255 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780711258044