Paint It Black

September 25, 2017

Death, despair, solemnity, infinity. Our associations with the color black illustrate humanity's complicated relationship with darkness. Follow the Art History Babes into the void as they discuss the role of black in everything from portraiture in the caves of Ancient Greece to the abstract paintings of Kazimir Malevich.

Sources

Eastaugh, Nicholas, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, and Ruth Siddall. Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.

Finlay, Victoria. Color: a natural history of the palette. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004.

Green F. J. The Sigma-Aldrich Handbook of Dyes, Stains and Indicators. Milwaukee: Aldrich, 1990.

Links

https://hyperallergic.com/395360/meet-singularity-black-the-blackest-paint-on-the-market/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Hyperallergic&utm_content=Meet+Singularity+Black%2C+the+Blackest+Paint+on+the+Market

http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/five-ways-look-Malevich-Black-Square

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ad-reinhardt/abstract-painiting-1963