Colour And Art A Brief History Of Pigments外语英文电子书.pdfVIP

ARTICLE IN PRESS Optics Laser Technology 38 (2006) 445–453 /locate/optlastec Colour and art: A brief history of pigments a, b b J.R. Barnett , Sarah Miller , Emma Pearce aSchool of Plant Sciences, The University of Reading, PO Box 221, Reading RG6 6AS, UK b Winsor Newton, Whitefriars Avenue, Harrow Middlesex HA3 5RH, UK Available online 21 July 2005 Abstract Human beings have had an inherent urge to leave their mark in the form of works of art since prehistoric times. This has driven the quest for new and better pigments with which to make paints. This paper describes the origins and composition of earliest earth pigments used by primitive man to decorate the walls of caves through to the synthetic pigments developed in more recent times. Despite modern technology, the artist’s palette remains a mixture of the pigments used by cave artists, natural pigments used in the middle ages, and modern organic compounds. r 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Pigments; Art history; Artists’ colours; Painting 1. Introduction under an overhanging ledge at the foot of a rock face and making the pictures as a way of occupying From prehistoric times humans have left their mark themselves while they waited for conditions to improve. on their environmen