Staves were taken to Portugal from Africa for the first time
niedziela, Luty 28th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneStaves were taken to Portugal from Africa for the first time If Van Eyck's work was able to show the world in a remarkable degree of detail, other Flemish artists offered other important naturalistic advances.
In the North changes took place against a backdrop of religious reform and revolt
niedziela, Luty 28th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneIn the North the changes took place against a backdrop of religious reform and revolt against the Church.
Obviously the math we
niedziela, Luty 28th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneObviously the math we learn in school isn’t going to help in thinking about painting.
The weights and oilinesses
niedziela, Luty 28th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneThe weights and oilinesses of the two colors must have been about equal, because the brown stayed put—except that it couldn’t mix with the white, so as the brown droplets spread out, they couldn’t touch one another.
These days, artists tend
niedziela, Luty 28th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneThese days, artists tend to use whatever is available in stores, and so they are even more like alchemists in another respect: they do not know (or care) what modern chemistry might have to say about their favorite substances.
Artists have made paints
niedziela, Luty 28th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneArtists have made paints from a pretty red mineral called cinnabar, which is usually found in an impure state, “admixed with rocky gangue” as one author says.
Japanese call this technique
niedziela, Luty 28th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneJapanese call this technique “flying white,” because a partly dry inkbrush will leave flashes of white as it drags across the silk.
McLean is interested in
sobota, Luty 27th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneMcLean is interested in the pure phenomenon of liquids mingling and separating, and how it conjures the idea that the mind might also be full of mingling and separating thoughts.
Lead White, the best
sobota, Luty 27th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneLead White, the best white paint before the nineteenth century, was made by putting cast “buckles” of lead in clay pots partly filled with vinegar; the pots were stacked in a shed with fermenting horse manure or waste tanning bark.
Books cannot put Monet
sobota, Luty 27th, 2010 Posted in Bez kategorii | Komentarze są wyłączoneBooks cannot put Monet’s “tricks” and “secrets” into words, but there is a discipline that has been working on the same kinds of problems since the time of the Greeks, and has a large vocabulary and wide experience in describing unnamable and unquantifiable substances. ...