Coloring Through Modern Art
35 movements to color, from Realism to today's sustainable art.
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The story behind the book
Every color has a history
The first artists painted with what they could find: red and yellow ochre from the earth, black from charcoal. Those few colors were enough for the animals on cave walls that still impress us today.
Later, color became a craft and sometimes a luxury. The ancient Egyptians made Egyptian blue, one of the first synthetic pigments. In Renaissance Europe, ultramarine was ground from lapis lazuli and was so costly that painters often saved it for the most important figure in a painting.
In the nineteenth century, paint in tin tubes made it possible to work outdoors, and the Impressionists took their easels to riversides and fields. In this book, each era comes with color suggestions, so you can color with the palette of its time, or deliberately break from it.
