colormen

"colormen" were to keep the camps clean, and look after the hospitals.

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

I like both extremes if they're handled well--or best of all a good variety within a single painting--but this debate certainly goes back to the 1880s or so when the Salon juries were complaining about impastos "which please only the colormen."

The Hard Road to Dreams James Gurney 2009

So great a variety makes the imitation of nature difficult. reference reference In addition, Pfannenschmid claimed, color nomenclature guarantees nothing. reference The color orange provided by different colormen, or even the orange produced by one firm at different times, may be very different colors. reference As Schäffer had mentioned, the use of the same colors on every example of a chart was critical to its value as a tool for description or comparison tool.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

The recipe remained a secret until 1724, when it was published in the Philosophical Transactions. 4 Once available, instructions to make Prussian blue quickly spread throughout Europe and beyond. 5 reference reference Prussian blue was described in public lectures on chemistry and the arts and was included in journals, compilations of practical instructions, dictionaries, and encyclopedias both specialized and general. 6 Furnishing the pigment to colormen became a subspecialty of the color trades.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

There were many variations among the coloring techniques that employed pigments, and many more were proposed by a number of eighteenth-century artists, colormen, and inventors. 35 Many of the special methods that were developed during the eighteenth century disappeared quickly: Montpetit's eludoric painting and Jean-Félix Watin's peinture d'impression, are two examples.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

A Treatise on the Art of Painting offers more-varied information than do other manuals of painting practice organized by or for painters and colormen, for example William Williams's An Essay on the Mechanic of Oil Colours. 8 It has a breadth of topics but no depth to its presentation of them; the treatise may have been as interesting to read and as difficult to use as the Encyclopédie méthodique.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

We would expect participation in these competitions from theorists or practitioners with identifiable connections to the color-dependent industries: colormakers, colormen, factory-owning merchants, painters, enamellers, dyers, drysalters.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

D. Harley, an art historian with a special interest in the production and use of fine-art materials in Britain, described de Massoul one of the first manufacturing artists 'colormen to publish a literary work. 3 de Massoul's publication is often characterized as a late-century practical treatise that contained useful information and that was, in fact, used.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Gamblin Artists Colors, I've the impression, is a company in the tradition of the colormen of the 16th and 17th centuries-utterly committed to providing artists with the best-concoted oil paints.

The ZehnKatzen Times 2009

Hoofnail's book may have constituted another example of efforts to ensure authority and longevity through publication, efforts as common among art teachers and colormen as it was among other savants. 3 The revision of Hoofnail's title (to The Painter's Companion ...) in a later edition suggests whom Hoofnail hoped to benefit and how Hoofnail focused, or refocused, Boyle's experiments. 4 We can address other questions, however — questions about why or how Hoofnail's book might have been issued and about where it fits within the panoply of printed sources of information and inspiration for color.

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