The Course / The History of Art in Ten Colours (Orange) 8/10

When:
June 20, 2019 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2019-06-20T10:45:00+01:00
2019-06-20T12:45:00+01:00
Where:
The Course at The University Womens Club
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
Cost:
£59.00
Contact:
Mary Bromley
020 7266 7815

Established in 1994, The Course offers exciting lectures in Art History, Literature and

Music.Hockney “I prefer living in colours”

The very term ‘colour’ is used differently in the C21st. This course traces the fascinating history of pigments: where they came from, how they were created, and how they have changed the course of art history. It’s a story that will take us from a single mine in Afghanistan to the serendipitous discovery of a fraudulent alchemist in Berlin to a contemporary patent for the blackest black imaginable. We’ll consider both the materiality of colours – for instance, the impact of ‘fugitive’ pigments and dyes that disappear in time – and their shifting symbolism in different cultural contexts. Re-discover paintings you thought you knew by seeing them digitally returned to their ‘real’ colours and forge new connections between artists.

Orange Vincent Van Gogh

“There is no blue without yellow and without orange”

A special colour in Buddhist art, till the C16th, orange was referred to as ‘yellow-red’ or ‘saffron.’ But a deep orange chromium from a Siberian mineral was discovered in the C18th. Before that, orange the colour was popular with the sophisticated Ferrara Renaissance painters such as Garofalo and Dosso Dossi. Explore how orange became a fashionable colour from princely orangeries through Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June, Winslow Homer’s and Toulouse-Lautrec’s works.