Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>wrote: > Subject: Re: [Leica] Thoughts about black and white... > >> Leonardo da Vinci >> ? did not have a camera, but he did his paintings in color. His drawings >> were often duotones. > >> You don't often encounter portraits painted in black and white. > >> I never see flowers in nature that are black and white. > ================================================================================================================================================ > But there were paintings in monochrome. It's known as grisaille. > > Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia, and the full link. > > Grisaille > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > > Grisaille (/?r??za?/ or /?r??ze?l/; French: gris [??izaj] 'grey') is a > term for painting executed entirely in monochrome or near-monochrome, > usually in shades of grey. It is particularly used in large decorative > schemes in imitation of sculpture. and if you are really into color... you can paint statues (I guess). Steve > Many grisailles in fact include a slightly wider colour range, like the > Andrea del Sarto fresco illustrated. Paintings executed in brown are > sometimes referred to by the more specific term brunaille, and paintings > executed in green are sometimes called verdaille.[1] > A grisaille may be executed for its own sake, as underpainting for an oil > painting (in preparation for glazing layers of colour over it), or as a > model for an engraver to work from. "Rubens and his school sometimes use > monochrome techniques in sketching compositions for engravers."[2] Full > colouring of a subject makes many more demands of an artist, and working > in grisaille was often chosen as being quicker and cheaper, although the > effect was sometimes deliberately chosen for aesthetic reasons. Grisaille > paintings resemble the drawings, normally in monochrome, that artists from > the Renaissance on were trained to produce; like drawings they can also > betray the hand of a less talented assistant more easily than a fully > coloured painting. > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisaille> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > And I don't feel art has to reproduce nature. > > I offer a quote from Goethe, during a discussion on a Rubens landscape in > which two sources of light can be seen - > "The double lighting is definitely a violation - a violation of nature, if > you like. But if it is a violation of nature, I add immediately that it > is superior to nature. > I say that this is a master stroke, and proves that with genius art is not > entirely subject to the necessities imposed by nature but has laws of its > own." > - From Eckerman's "Conversations" 1827. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA POY 1978 > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information