CERULEAN: basics

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

basics

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layers said...: I love your very textured minimal colored works here-- wonderful!; July 29, 2010 at 4:50 AM
Leslie Avon Miller said...: All of your work is compelling. I am so glad to see it!; July 29, 2010 at 5:33 AM
r.bohnenkamp said...: I am thrilled!
nice greetings from Germany; July 29, 2010 at 6:01 PM
CERULEAN said...: Thanks!; July 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM

About the name

Cerulean is a range of colours from deep blue, skye-blue, bright blue or azure to deep cyan. The word cerulean comes from the Latin word caerulem, which means 'sky' or 'heavens' or sometimes 'oceans'.

Besides cerulean, ultramarine (cornflower blue) plays a prominent role. This pigment is natural present in the mineral lazurite, found in the valuable lapis lazuli.

From 1100 onwards this pigment, imported from Asia (China, Afghanistan), reaches the ateliers of painters in Europe, the blue of old masters Ducio, Titiaan and Vermeer.

In Italy the colour was known as Azurro Oltramarino. Literally 'the azurite coming from beyond the seas'.

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