It must be obvious that studio practice in colour use long pre-dates scientific theories which attempt to explain it. Only one artistic movement, the neo-impressionism of Seurat and Signac, attempted to order the former according to the latter. For preceding ages the...
This classic book on the craft of painting is the accepted authority on questions of materials and techniques. Max Doerner, drawing on over twenty-five years of teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, examines everything that the practicing artist might need...
As said previously, drawing and painting are ultimately inseparable activities, and underpainting is often confusingly termed underdrawing .But this at least elucidates its function. In the 15th century both northern and southern European artists, having prepared...
Experts must forgive this somewhat bald classification which is only adopted to be concise. Flemish 15th century artists quickly exploited the way in which oil paint could create rich colour effects by means of successive layers of thin transparent paint of similar or...
In the hands of 16th century Venetian and some central Italian artists glazing methods were adapted to attain more adventurous effects. These tended to use the mixing principles stipulated in the previous section., and usually presupposed an overall coloured priming,...
