The Artist's Palette

Alexandra Loske

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Princeton University Press
05 November 2024

Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; Art techniques & principles; Pigments, dyestuffs & paint technology

A beautifully illustrated look at the paints and palettes used by many of the world’s greatest artists from the sixteenth century to today

What can the palette an artist used or depicted tell us about their artistic process, preferences, and finished works? From traditional wooden boards to paint pots, ceramic plates, and studio walls, these deceptively simple yet potent tools provide vital evidence. The Artist’s Palette presents fifty unique palettes alongside paintings by the celebrated artists who used them, gathering expert analysis of color, brushstroke, and technique to offer new histories of these artists and their work.

Alexandra Loske pairs each artist’s color palette with one or more of their paintings, revealing how the artist used paints and pigments. While Georges Seurat meticulously arranged the paints on his palette in prismatic order, a pointillist technique reflected on his canvases, Kerry James Marshall uses blots of zinc white and smears of pale pink on the surfaces of symbolically oversized white palettes held by the Black artists in his portraits, raising provocative questions about the role of color in Black history and Western art. Through these and other compelling accounts, Loske shows how, behind every great painting, there is a palette that tells its story.

Featuring a wealth of original photographs of palettes, paints, and pigments of all kinds, The Artist’s Palette takes readers into the studios of artists from Artemisia Gentileschi, Rembrandt, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and John Singer Sargent to Egon Schiele, Georgia O’Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler, Lucian Freud, and Keith Haring, revealing how the materials and tools they used hide secrets and are often reflections of the life and times of the artist who once held, prepared, and used them.

By: Alexandra Loske
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 206mm,
ISBN: 9780691263960
ISBN 10: 0691263965
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 05 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexandra Loske is a British-German art historian and writer. She is the Curator of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, East Sussex, and serves as a research associate at the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Color: A Visual History from Newton to Modern Color Matching Guides and Mary Gartside (c. 1755–1819): Abstract Visions of Colour, the lead author of The Book of Colour Concepts, and the editor of A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry.

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""A deliciously detailed look at its titular subject.""---Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic ""Illuminating and attractive. . . . [The Artist’s Palette is] an appealing study that uncovers important artistic secrets."" * Kirkus Reviews starred review * ""A new exploration of color by an engaging storyteller and scholar. . . . The book abounds with interesting factoids. . . . This diligently researched and delightfully presented general history is an inspiration.""---Lori Ortiz, LiVE MAG!

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