A Closer Look: Colour by David Bomford & Ashok Roy, softback published by the National Gallery. ISBn 978-1-8570-9442-8, price 7.99 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
We look at paintings as a whole, instead of considering the colour, how it was achieved, why it was chosen. This compact book takes a closer look at colour, exploring how painters apply colour, pigments, major theories and artist’s treatises.
The book looks at a wide and varied range of subject matter and artists. It examines the symbolism and emotion of colour. Each colour is then discussed in detail with examples given in paintings. Find out how much the new pigments changed art. Discover how the chosen medium, such as oil or watercolour affected colour. A fascinating look at colour in paintings from the illuminated manuscript to Seurat.