ही पोस्ट वाचण्याच्या आधी "ग्रीकांचा नीळांधळेपणा आणि (प्रशियन) निळासांवळा.... GA and Prabhakar Gorey's Prussian Blu" ही फेब्रुवारी ३ २०२०ची पोस्ट पहा.
कलाकार : प्रभाकर गोरे
"Georg Brandt, born on this day in 1694, holds the distinction of being the
first named person to isolate a new metal since ancient times. The Greeks and
Romans knew about gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and lead, but in terms of
metals, that was it. They didn’t know about cobalt, the metal that Brandt
discovered and that helped change painting forever...
.... Painters innovated
with this glut of new blues. Take Starry Night Over the Rhône,
for example: Van Gogh used all three of the new colors—Prussian blue, cobalt
and ultramarine—to capture the nighttime hues of the Rhône river..."
(smithsonianmag.com
, जून २६ २०१७)
