Impressionists' Palettes of Light - Softcover

Railing, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0946311005 ISBN 13: 9780946311002

Publisher: Artists Bookworks, 2019

Synopsis

The French Impressionist painters discovered new means for painting light – they used a “solar palette”, the pigments matched to the colors the eyes see. They are the colors of a ray of light.

This little book reproduces palettes by several of the plein-air painters, describes the pigments they used, and includes short excerpts by the scientists whose work was the foundation of this new kind of painting – complementary colors, optical mixing, and pigment-color correspondences. It closes with color swatches of the pigments, provided by the London artists’ colormen, L. Cornelissen & Son. This book will be of interest to art historians, collectors, students, conservators, and museum-goers.

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About the Author

Patricia Railing (PhD, University of Paris ,Sorbonne, Philosophy of Art) is an art historian specialising in both the Russian Avant-Garde and the history of artists' pigments. She has compiled this collection, Colour Palettes, from treatises, 1st century B.C. to the 19th century, which culminates in the Documentary Dictionary of Historical Pigments.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artists Bookworks
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0946311005
• ISBN 13: 9780946311002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68