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Art and Science: 0 Contents

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An illustrated table of contents for the whole of this series, with listings of featured artists, pigments, etc.

April 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 15 Permanence of colour

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Fading and colour change in paints has been well-described since 1400. Shown here in examples using indigo, it wasn’t properly investigated until the late 19th century.

March 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Art and Science: 14 Back to alchemy

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Joshua Reynolds, who aspired to paint like Rembrandt; JMW Turner who explored colour contrasts and texture; Edgar Degas, who dried his oils before painting.

March 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 13 Pseudoscience

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Physiognomy originated in ancient Greece, but was codified by Lavater in 1772; phrenology followed from 1796, and together they attracted many painters.

March 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 12 Colourmen and tubes

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It has been claimed that Impressionism relied on oil paint being sold in tubes. In fact that was but a part of a change from craft to technology in the artist’s studio.

March 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 11 New paint

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Acrylics are too chemically complex for artists to prepare themselves, containing packaged blends of polymers with surfactants, and much more.

February 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 10 Neo-Impressionism after Seurat

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After Seurat’s unexpected and early death, Paul Signac was his artistic heir, but the movement went in different directions before fading out after 1900.

February 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 9 Seurat’s Neo-Impressionism

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With its origins in the old rivalry between form and colour, Divisionism was the concept of scientific painting in the mind of Georges Seurat.

February 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 8 Medicine

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From 1875 on, paintings of surgical procedures, heroes of medical and surgical advances, and the new clinical look of hospitals.

February 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 7 Technology

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Paintings of iron and steel production, printing, lead mining, machining a cog wheel, spinning, and developing a photograph.

January 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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