The Artist's Palette

The Artist's Palette

Pre-1870. The Tonal Palette

Caterina van Hemessen. A palette like a dagger

Artemisia Gentileschi. A palette ripped from the artist's hand, and reclaimed

Rembrandt. A limited palette of liquid shadows

Angelica Kauffman. Allegorical and personal palettes

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. A neat and calculated palette

John Constable. A palette facing the elements

Eugène Delacroix. A palette composed of precious stones

J. M. W. Turner. Painting sea, rain and sky with a watery palette

Gustave Courbet. A realist's "dirty" palette

Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres. A warm, academic palette

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. One gorgeous mass of aesthetic nothingness

Henri Fantin-Latour. A palette of vibrating stillness

Rosa Bonheur. The truthful palettes of an extraordinary woman

1871-1900. The Dynamic Palette

Paul Cézanne. A singing palette with dark undertones

Edgar Degas. A blurred palette, capturing movement and light

Berthe Morizot. A personal palette, capturing the fleetingness of childhood

Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A palette that reveals all

Vincent Van Gogh. A visceral palette

Gustave Moreau. Thinking imaginatively through colour

John Singer Sargent. Mounds of colour on a baffling palette

Paul Gauguin. A voyeuristic palette of symbolist colour

Camille Pissaro. The palette as a work of art

Georges Seurat. A palette of light and lustre

James Ensor. A carnivalesque palette

Winslow Homer. An elemental palette

Vilhelm Hammershoi. A silent palette in many shades of grey

1901-1930 The Experimental Palette

Edvard Munch. Symbolic, screaming colours

Paula Modersohn-Becker. A palette carrying the depht of colour

Claude Monet. Turning oil into shimmering images of water

Pierre Bonnard. The colours of memories

Henri Marisse. A pure, emotional palette

Wassily Kandinsky. A palette for colour's sake

Gabriele Münter. A palette like birdsong

Egon Schiele. A painful palette, glowing bright as jewels and flowers

Georgia O'Keeffe. A liquid abstract world in a tin box

Edward Hopper. A thin palette of haunted

1931-Present The Liberated Palette

Joan Miro. A starman's cosmic palette

Georges Braque. A sinuuous, intuitive palette

Piet Mondrian. An "abstract-real" palette in search of purity

Pablo Picasso. A palette and some beasts

Marc Chagall. Painted palettes as symbols of love

Winifred Nicholson. A palette of know and unknow colours

Salvador Dali. A perfectionnist's subconscious palette

Helen Frankenthaler. The studio as palette, the artist as paintbrush

Francis Bacon. A palette on a plate

Lucian Freud. A wild, fleshy palette

Bridget Riley. A geometric palette of colour, shape and mind

Keith Haring. A political palette for everyone

Paula Rego. A subversive, technicolour palette

Kerry James Marshall. How black and white is your palette ?

Endnotes

Sources of quotations

Bibliography

Source of illustrations

Index

Acknowledgements

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