📗 Libro en inglés COLOURS OF ART

Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes For these pieces colour is not only a tool like a paintbrush or a canvas but the fundamental secret to their success Colour allows artists to express their individuality evoke certain moods and portray positive or negative subliminal messages And throughout history the greatest of artists have experimented with new pigments and new technologies to lead movements and deliver masterpieces But as something so cardinal we sometimes forget how poignant colour palettes can be and how much they can tell us When Vermeer painted The Milkmaid the amount of ultramarine he could use was written in the contract How did that affect how he used it When Turner experimented with Indian Yellow he captured roaring flames that brought his paintings to life If he had used a more ordinary yellow would he have created something so extraordinary And how did Warhol throw away the rulebook to change what colour could achieve Structured chronologically Colours of Art provides a fun intelligent and visually engaging look at the greatest artistic palettes in art history from Rafael s use of perspective and Vermeer s ultramarine to Andy Warhol s hot pinks and Lis