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Investigates the nature of colour and of some pigments, the substances that give rise to colour, by examining a 16th-century Italian painting.
Six half-hour programmes in which National Gallery director Neil MacGregor explores the relationship between painters and their materials: 1) Pictures as Things: Change and Decay: how paintings were made and...
Follows a link between the cells involved in human colour vision and a rather unusual bacterium from the Dead Sea. Dr Jim Bowmaker, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, describes the techniques for looking at...
An interactive printing guide looking at offset print quality issues, covering pigments, solvents, additives and fillers.
Shows melanocytes and keratinocytes in culture and points out the differences in shape. Explains the mechanism of pigment transfer by a diagram and by time-lapse cinemicrography in cultured cells.
Illustrates the technique of painting in fresco, combining studio demonstrations with location filming of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, the Spanish Chapel in Florence and the Villa Farnesina and the Farnese...
Shows the important role of dyes and pigments in everyday life. Looks at the scientific basis of additive and substractive colour. Uses a simple pictorial approach based on quantum theory to demonstrate how...
Shows the work of a number of Ndebele women artists in South Africa who are famous for their skills at decorating houses. The traditional designs are geometic shapes like triangles and zig-zags, often...
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