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Colours of Art The Story of Art in 80 Palettes

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

24.09.2026

Abbildungen

100 colour artworks

Verlag

Frances Lincoln

Seitenzahl

256

Maße (L/B)

24,5/19 cm

Gewicht

750 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-80570-148-4

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

24.09.2026

Abbildungen

100 colour artworks

Verlag

Frances Lincoln

Seitenzahl

256

Maße (L/B)

24,5/19 cm

Gewicht

750 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-80570-148-4

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Colours of Art
  • Introduction                                                                                                                                                                       
     
    1. First impressions                                                                                                                                          
    Stone Age, Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome   
                            


    Feature: The nature of colour – how artists created natural colours.    

    Horses, from the Chauvet cave near the Pont d’Arc

    Bison, from Altamira

    Nebamun Hunting Birds, from the tomb of Nebamun

    Tomb of the Diver

     

    2. Ordering the world                                                                                                                                                        
    The Renaissance


    Feature: A roaring trade – on the colour trade and the cost/availability of colours

    Lamentation, Giotto

    Saint Ansanus Altarpiece, Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi

    The Wilton Diptych

    Saints Jerome and John the Baptist, Masaccio

    Portrait of a Man with a Turban, Jan van Eyck

    The Magdalen Reading, Rogier Van der Weyden

    The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli

    The Rape of Europa, Titian

    Philip II, Sofonisba Anguissola

    Portrait of Bianca Degli Utili Maselli surrounded by six of her children, Lavinia Fontana
     

    3. Cutting loose                                                                                                                                                                      
    Baroque to Rococo


    Feature: The colour wheel – on Isaac Newton’s discovery of the colour spectrum, and his error – trusting maths over the sensations of the eye

    Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Caravaggio

    Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi

    The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus), Diego Velázquez

    Rising and Setting of the Sun, François Boucher

    Colour, Angelica Kauffman

    Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
     

    4. Keeping it real                                                                                                                                                 
    Realism


    Feature: Risky business – on poisonous colours and artists risking their lives for their work.

    Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke and Cherries, Clara Peeters

    A Woman Bathing in a Stream, Rembrandt van Rijn

    The Goldfinch, Carel Fabritius

    The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer

    Flowers in a Vase, Rachel Ruysch
     

    5. Two sides of a coin                                                                                                                                                         
    Neoclassicism to Romanticism


    Feature: How we see colour – on Goethe’s new symmetrical colour wheel and physiological theories.

    Albion Rose, William Blake

    Portrait of a Negress, Marie-Guillemine Benoist

    Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, Eugène Delacroix

    The Burning of the Houses of Parliament , Joseph Mallord William Turner

    Comtesse d’Haussonville, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
     

    6. Let there be light                                                                                                                                                             
    The Impressionist Revolution


    Feature: Colour chemistry – on the industrialisation of colour and the making of synthetic pigments.

    Two Women Chatting by the Sea, Camille Pissarro

    Young Woman with Peonies, Frédéric Bazille

    Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler

    Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, Édouard Manet

    In the Country (After Lunch), Berthe Morisot

    Combing the Hair, Edgar Degas

    The Child’s Bath, Mary Cassatt

    Waterloo Bridge, Blurred Sun, Claude Monet
     

    7. On the edge of the spectrum                                                                                                                 
    Post-Impressionists, Pre-Raphaelites, Les Nabis, Surrealists


    Feature: Colour decorum – on the relativity of colour and its use and reception in different cultural contexts. (An opportunity to touch on non-Western art.)

    Night and Sleep, Evelyn de Morgan

    The Suitor, Édouard Vuillard

    The Visit, Félix Vallotton

    Interior. Strandgade 30, Vilhelm Hammershoi

    Barbarian Tales, Paul Gauguin

    The Life, Pablo Picasso

    The Green Blouse, Pierre Bonnard

    The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo

    The Old Maids, Leonora Carrington
     

    8. Express yourself                                                                                                                                                              
    Expressionism and Fauvism


    Feature: The psychology of colour – on colour communicating and sparking emotion.

    Two Crabs, Vincent van Gogh

    The Scream, Edvard Munch

    Self-portrait on Sixth Wedding Anniversary, Paula Modersohn-Becker

    Group X, No.1, Altarpiece, Hilma af Klint

    The Yellow Scale, František Kupka

    The Dessert: Harmony in Red, Henri Matisse

    Seated Woman with Legs Drawn Up (Adele Herms), Egon Schiele

    Still Life with Blackening Apples, by Helene Schjerfbeck
     

    9. Seeing it feelingly                                                                                                                                                            
    Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field Painting


    Feature: Properties of colour – on hue, intensity and tone, and the changing precedence of each throughout art history

    Electric Prisms, Sonia Delaunay

    Mountains and Sea, Helen Frankenthaler

    Bird Talk, Lee Krasner

    No. 11 (Untitled), Mark Rothko

    Ocean Park #79, Richard Diebenkorn
     

    10. Show some restraint                                                                                                                                   
    Monochrome and Minimalism


    Feature: The Pantone palette – on attempts to create a universal colour language. Plus Pantone’s predecessors, eg Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814).

    Homage to the Square: Apparition, Joseph Albers

    The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II, Frank Stella

    IKB 79, Yves Klein

    White Stone, Agnes Martin
     

    11. By popular demand                                                                                                                                                       
    Pop Art to The Pictures Generation


    Feature: Anything is possible – on new materials and colour experimentation outside of the medium of painting.

    Colour Her Gone, Pauline Boty

    Ice Cream, Evelyne Axell

    Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground), Barbara Kruger

    A Bigger Splash, David Hockney

    Ladies and Gentlemen (Iris), Andy Warhol
     

    12. Here and Now                                                                                                                                                  
    Contemporary art from the 1970s


    Feature: The colour of art history – on artists painting black figures into the mostly white canon.

    Self-Portrait, Alice Neel

    Self-Portrait, Basquiat

    Untitled, Etel Adnan

    To Tell Them There It’s Got To, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

    Spinners (Moths and Spiders Webs), Kiki Smith

    Slaughter of the Innocents (They Might be Guilty of Something), Kara Walker

    Shantavia Beal II, Kehinde Wiley

    Boucher’s Flesh, Flora Yukhnovich

    The Ruling Class (Eshu), Toyin Ojih Odutola

    Sabine, Alison Watt

    Untitled, Lisa Brice
     

    Index                                                                                                                                                                                        
    Further reading                                                                                                                                                                
    Picture credits                                                                                                                                                 
    Acknowledgements