Browsing Tag Art History
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PigmentsPyrrole Red is a modern bright red pigment. Its name comes from the Greek word pyrrhós, which means ‘fiery’. Pyrrole Red was discovered accidentally in the 1970s and ...
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Features & Editorials
Eric Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a watercolour painter, book illustrator, and wood engraver, whose work traversed the boundaries of fine art and illustration. ...
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Oil Painting
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the leading French Impressionist landscape painter. It was in a bad review of their first show that a critic labelled the group of ‘lunatic’ ...
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Features & Editorials
Artists’ Books are a revealing and versatile art form that have been created throughout art history. They are used by artists to express their ideas, expand on personal ...
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Oil Painting
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was a pioneering artist with a distinctive colour palette and painting style. Widely considered to be the first internationally acclaimed African American painter, his ...
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Features & Editorials
In 19th-century Britain, revolutionary advances in chemistry led to an explosion of vibrant new dyes and pigments, introducing a dazzling array of colour possibilities for Victorian wardrobes and ...
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Features & Editorials
Winifred Nicholson was a relentless investigator of colour, a painter of flowers, figures and landscapes, and an experimental abstract artist. Her work inspired many, including her husband of ...
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Features & Editorials
Vermilion (alternatively spelt Vermillion) was an ancient, mercury-based pigment with an illustrious history in painting. It was first used as far back as the Neolithic age, and was ...
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Features & Editorials
The paintings of John Constable are known and seen throughout the world. Because his artwork is mass produced on table mats and as prints, some people wrongly consider ...
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Pigments
Payne’s Grey is made up of a mixture of pigments that combine to make an alternative to black. It is usually very dark in masstone, and reveals very ...
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Studio and General
Potter’s Pink (pigment number PR233) is a textural, gentle pink pigment that was invented at the end of the 18th century. This article takes a look at the ...
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Features & Editorials
How far back does the practice of keeping a sketchbook go? The discovery of a 13th-century portfolio of ink drawings, far pre-dating Leonardo da Vinci’s famous notebooks of ...
