CERULEAN: landmark

Sunday, May 19, 2013

landmark

4 comments:

Jo Murray said...: I just love how your titles really bring a totally abstract piece to life.; May 19, 2013 at 11:01 PM
Claudia said...: I like it very much!

Claudia; May 20, 2013 at 5:44 PM
Caterina Giglio said...: I had to look at this piece and the one in the last post carefully... I thought I saw stitches... but it looks like perforations...; May 21, 2013 at 8:05 PM
CERULEAN said...: I've made the stitches / perforations with a tracing wheel.; May 21, 2013 at 8:37 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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