Human beings have had an inherent urge to leave their mark in the form of works of art since preh... more Human beings have had an inherent urge to leave their mark in the form of works of art since prehistoric times. This has driven the quest for new and better pigments with which to make paints. This paper describes the origins and composition of earliest earth pigments used by primitive man to decorate the walls of caves through to the synthetic pigments developed in more recent times. Despite modern technology, the artist's palette remains a mixture of the pigments used by cave artists, natural pigments used in the middle ages, and modern organic compounds.
... As art had returned to the observation of nature, however, the pure and shining colours of me... more ... As art had returned to the observation of nature, however, the pure and shining colours of medieval stained glass or book illuminations had given way to those mellow mix-tures of tones with which the greatest painters among the Venetians (p. 248) and the Dutch (p. 333 ...
... Incorporating analysis of display techniques used in department stores, natural history museu... more ... Incorporating analysis of display techniques used in department stores, natural history museums, non-Western art galleries, and the international avant-gardes ... How does an amnesia regarding exhibition design affect art history, the art world, and collective cultural memories? ...
Three decades of increasingly detailed ethnographic interpretation have laid a firm foundation fo... more Three decades of increasingly detailed ethnographic interpretation have laid a firm foundation for a change in the evidential status of southern African rock art. Here it is argued that the images need no longer be seen as simply pictures from and of the past; more importantly, they ...
Human beings have had an inherent urge to leave their mark in the form of works of art since preh... more Human beings have had an inherent urge to leave their mark in the form of works of art since prehistoric times. This has driven the quest for new and better pigments with which to make paints. This paper describes the origins and composition of earliest earth pigments used by primitive man to decorate the walls of caves through to the synthetic pigments developed in more recent times. Despite modern technology, the artist's palette remains a mixture of the pigments used by cave artists, natural pigments used in the middle ages, and modern organic compounds.
... As art had returned to the observation of nature, however, the pure and shining colours of me... more ... As art had returned to the observation of nature, however, the pure and shining colours of medieval stained glass or book illuminations had given way to those mellow mix-tures of tones with which the greatest painters among the Venetians (p. 248) and the Dutch (p. 333 ...
... Incorporating analysis of display techniques used in department stores, natural history museu... more ... Incorporating analysis of display techniques used in department stores, natural history museums, non-Western art galleries, and the international avant-gardes ... How does an amnesia regarding exhibition design affect art history, the art world, and collective cultural memories? ...
Three decades of increasingly detailed ethnographic interpretation have laid a firm foundation fo... more Three decades of increasingly detailed ethnographic interpretation have laid a firm foundation for a change in the evidential status of southern African rock art. Here it is argued that the images need no longer be seen as simply pictures from and of the past; more importantly, they ...
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