CHROMATOPIA : David Coles
The world has always been filled with colours, but we as humans have not always been able to create colours for using. And that’s why it is incredibly interesting to read David Cole's book on the evolution of colours.
He writes about the first colours, the colours of antiquity, the classic colours, the colours of the Middle Ages, etc. All the way to the present. How they were created, what they were used for, and who found or created them. It's fascinating to get an insight into the huge amount of work that lots of people have done to try to reproduce the colours of the nature. And how difficult it actually was.
David Coles takes us from ocher and charcoal over Egyptian blue and saffron to cadmium red and vanta black (!). To finally pass on recipes and explanations of inks and paints - and also the meanings of different colours.
The world has always been filled with colours, but we as humans have not always been able to create colours for using. And that’s why it is incredibly interesting to read David Cole's book on the evolution of colours.
He writes about the first colours, the colours of antiquity, the classic colours, the colours of the Middle Ages, etc. All the way to the present. How they were created, what they were used for, and who found or created them. It's fascinating to get an insight into the huge amount of work that lots of people have done to try to reproduce the colours of the nature. And how difficult it actually was.
David Coles takes us from ocher and charcoal over Egyptian blue and saffron to cadmium red and vanta black (!). To finally pass on recipes and explanations of inks and paints - and also the meanings of different colours.
The world has always been filled with colours, but we as humans have not always been able to create colours for using. And that’s why it is incredibly interesting to read David Cole's book on the evolution of colours.
He writes about the first colours, the colours of antiquity, the classic colours, the colours of the Middle Ages, etc. All the way to the present. How they were created, what they were used for, and who found or created them. It's fascinating to get an insight into the huge amount of work that lots of people have done to try to reproduce the colours of the nature. And how difficult it actually was.
David Coles takes us from ocher and charcoal over Egyptian blue and saffron to cadmium red and vanta black (!). To finally pass on recipes and explanations of inks and paints - and also the meanings of different colours.