color in art
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COLOR IN ART HISTORY
José Luis CAIVANO [email protected]
University of Buenos Airesand National Council for Research
Argentine Color Group
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circa 20 000 BC - Bison, Altamira cave, Spain
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2660 BC - Ur, Mesopotamian memorial plate
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Egypt - glazed brick lion from the wall of Nebuchadnezzar’s palace
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Egyptone of the first major civilizations to codify design elements in art. The wall paintings followed a rigid code of visual rules and meanings.
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circa 2500 BC - Egypthippopotamus hunt, Tomb of Ti, Saqqarah
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Egypt
circa 1300 BCbust of Nephertiti
polychrome sculpture
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Greece
red and black pottery
500 BC
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chryselephantinesculptures
Greece, 5th century BC
polychromy with the use of different
materials
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chryselephantinesculptures
Greece
Athena ParthenosPhidias, circa 440 BC
polychromy with the use of different
materials
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circa 500 BC
Greece, polychrome painted
sculpture(reconstruction)
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circa 80 BC
Pompeii,wall
painting in a villa
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1st century
Rome, polychrome painted
sculpture
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1st century
Rome, polychrome
sculpture
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medieval polychrome sculpture
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12th century
Byzantinmosaic
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circa 1100
medieval stained
glass windows
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circa 1140
Cathedral of St. Denis
medieval stained
glass windows
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circa 1285
Cimabue
Madonna and child
image and color codified representation
Medieval painting
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1340
Pietro Lorenzetti
Madonna and child
codified blue on the Virgin
Medieval painting
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circa 1300
miniature painting,
manuscript
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circa 1400
illuminated manuscripts
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1325
Giotto
Last suppererrors in
perspective (parallel
lines do not met in a
vanishing point)
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before 1470 - Botticelli, Madonna and child
Renaissance
codified blue on the
Virgin
correct perspective
with central
vanishing point for parallel
lines
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circa 1439
Jan van Eyck
Madonna and child
early stages of aerial
perspective
Renaissance
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circa 1474 Piero della Francesca
Federico da Montefeltro
aerial perspective
Renaissance
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circa 1490
Jean Hay
Margaret of Austria
aerial perspective
Renaissance
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circa 1495
Lorenzo di Credi
Annunciation
aerial perspective
Renaissance
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circa 1510
Raphael
Madonna
HighRenaissance
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1510
Leonardo
Virgin and child with St. Anne
developed stage of aerial perspective
HighRenaissance
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circa 1530
Parmigianino
Madonna and child
developed stage of aerial perspective;
starting of chiaroscuro
Manierism
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1598 - Federico Barocci, Aeneas flees burning Troy
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1606 - Caravaggio, St. Jerome - chiaroscuroBaroque
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Baroque
circa1609
Rubens, Samson and Delilah - chiaroscuro
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1640
Georges de la Tour
St. Joseph, thecarpenter
chiaroscuro
Baroque
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Baroque
17th century
trompe l’oeilin mural painting
perspective and illussions of
3D space
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1767
Tiepolo
ceiling in Villa Pisani
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1648 - Nicolas Poussin, Holy family - 3 primary colors
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1784 - Jacques-L. David, Oath of the HoratiiNeoclassicism
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1822 - Delacroix, The barque of DanteRomanticism
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1835 - William Turner, The burning of the Houses of Lords…
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circa 1835 - William Turner, Surge of sea in a storm
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circa 1845 - William Turner, Europe and the bull
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ChevreulThe principles of harmony and contrast of colors“Two adjacent colours, when seen by the eye, will appear as dissimilar as possible.”
influence on impressionist painters
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1886 - Georges Seurat, La grande jatte - pointillism
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1887 - Georges Seurat, Sitting model - pointillism
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1888 - Georges Seurat, The dock of Port-en-Bessin with hight tide – pointillism, divisionism, partitive color mixture
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1887Vincent Van Gogh, Interior of a restaurant - pointillism
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1887
Vincent Van Gogh
Self portrait
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1892-1894
Monet, Cathedral of Rouen
Impressionism
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1904Henri Matisse, Light, calm and voluptuous
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1905
Henri Matisse,
Portrait of Madame Matisse
arbitrary use of color
Fauvism
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1906
AndréDerian
pure colors without mixing, painting withouth shades or nuances, subjective representation
Fauvism
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1913 - Kandisnky, Composition Nr. 4Abstraction
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1915
Malevich
Black square
Abstraction
suprematism
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Malevitch
White on white
Abstraction
suprematism
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Ostwald, Harmonie der Farben (Harmony of colors)
influences on Paul Klee and the neoplasticist painters (De Stijl), including Mondrian
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1929
Paul Klee
Fire in the evening
Abstraction
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1921
Piet Mondrian
Composition
Abstraction
neoplasticismDe Stijl
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1942
Piet Mondrian
Brodway boogie boogie
Abstraction
neoplasticismDe Stijl
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1926
Josef Albers
Structure in blue
sandblasted glass
Abstraction
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1950
Henri Matisse, Zulma
gouache on paper cut-out
use of plane color
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1950-1960 - Yves Klein – monochrome paintings
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1950-1960
Yves Klein
monochrome paintings
IKB (International Klein Blue)
reminiscent of the lapis lazuli used to paint the Madonna'srobes in medieval paintings
conceptual art
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Yves Klein – anthropometries – using the human body to paint
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Keneth Noland1958
color field paintingabstract expressionism
Clyfford Still1957
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1960
Mark Rothko
Red over black on
red
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abstract expressionism
1960’s - Jackson Pollock
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1965
Roy Lichtenstein
Head with black shadow
Pop art
reminiscent of comics
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cinetic art
1960-1990
Jesus Soto
light, color, space, moires, interferences
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cinetic art
1960-2000
Carlos Cruz Diez
light, color, space, moires, interferences
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Association Internationale de la CouleurInternational Color AssociationInternationale Vereinigung für die Farbe
www.aic-color.org