Can Science Shape Art or Art Shape Science?
The Art and Science of Color
An Undergraduate Course for Chemistry and Art Students
Chemistry-Inspired Art
http://www.geeknaut.com/images/2009/03/periodic_table_keys.jpg
http://walyou.com/periodic-table-jewelry/
Imagining the Aesthetic Metaphor
Electronegativity
Dreams of Valency
Lane E. Last, Assistant Professor of Art, University of Tennessee at Martin
From “Chemistry in Art, a Virtual Exhibition” http://www.hyle.org/art/cia/index.html
The Invention of Painting, Jean Baptiste Regnault
http://projectionsystems.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/the-origin-of-painting/
Australian rock painting
Hematite: From the Greek, haimatites, "bloodlike'" due to vivid red color of the powder
Peche Merle Cave - France
Brief History of Pigments in Paintings
Impressionist Palette
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Seurat__Un_dimanche_apr%C3%A8s-
Claude Monet - Early use of cadmium yellow
Garden In Bodighera, Impression of Morning
Monet 1880
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Matisse-The-Dessert-Harmony-in-Red-Henri-1908-fast.jpg
Webexbits.org and http://webmineral.com/specimens/picshow.php?id=493&target=Hawleyite
The Dessert: Harmony in Red, Matisse 1908
Pthalo & Quinacridone Dyes
Dyes at Nepalese market
Pigment Preparation and History of Art
The Feast of the Gods, 15th-16th Century
First Version by Bellini
http://webexhibits.org/feast/analysis/readingphotos.html
Artists’ Styles: Who did it?
X-ray photography
Branches from top right of Feast of the Gods
Titian, The Andrians, c. 1525
Giovanni Bellini, The Infant Bacchus, c. 1505/151
Dosso Dossi, Aeneas and Achates on Libyan Coast, c. 15
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
http://webexhibits.org/feast/location/vr.html
Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, (1486-1534)
Supposed portrait of Lucrezia Borgia, the daughter of Pope
Alexander VI, assumed to be by Dosso Dossi, but very likely
her daughter-in-law Renée of France (1535, National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia).
Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Modena and
Reggio, After Titian (attributed to Bastianino), (late
16th or 17th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Vasari (1511-1574) reports in Lives of the Artists that Bellini failed to finish The Feast of the Gods
before he died and that Titian completed it.
Bellini signed the painting and received a final payment of 85 golden ducats from Alfonso on 14
November 1514.
Timeline for Feast of the Gods
• 1511 Design of studiolo was created by Mario
Equicola for Alfonso, who made plans for five
paintings
• 1514 Feast of the Gods is completed by Bellini
• 1516 Bellini dies
• 1517 Fra Bartolomeo dies
• 1520 Raphael dies
• 1518-1529 Titian contributes three of the five
paintings needed to fill the studiolo
• 1521-1522 The fifth painting is painted by Ferrara's
court painter, Dosso Dossi, who also modernizes the
Feast of the Gods.
• 1529 Titian harmonizes all five paintings
Case Study: Inorganic Pigments and History of
Art
The Feast of the Gods, 15th-16th Century
http://webexhibits.org/feast/analysis/readingphotos.html
First Version by Bellini
Artists’ Styles: Who did it?
X-ray photography
Branches from top right of Feast of the Gods
Titian, The Andrians, c. 1525
Giovanni Bellini, The Infant Bacchus, c. 1505/151
Dosso Dossi, Aeneas and Achates on Libyan Coast, c. 152
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1519
1520-1522
1525
1529
Science Laboratory
Safety issues specific to work with mineral pigments
Light composition; spectrophotometry
Color theory; colorimetry
Synthesis of Prussian Blue, Chrome Yellow and Green, Bismuth Yellow
Final Projects Bridging Chemistry and Art
Corroding and Corroded, chemistry on copper
Creation 15, 24" x 36", 2002 Creation 17, 24" x 36", 2002
http://www.hyle.org/art/cia/files/index.htm
Corroding, 2007
http://www.safren.com/series/chemistryoncopper/
3.10 eV
2.92 eV
Conduction Band
2.64 eV
2.53 eV
2.25 eV
2.07 eV
1.97 eV
1.86 eV
1.77 eV
Valence Band
Streetman, Ben G.; Sanjay Banerjee (2000). Solid State electronic Devices (5th ed.).Prentice Hall. p. 524.
http://gemologyproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Causes_of_color
www.windows2universe.org/sun/spectrum/multispectral_sun_overview.html
Decomposition or Composition of Light
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Circus Sideshow
The “Inorganic Chemistry” Origin of Color
Chrome yellow
Pb(NO3)2 + Na2CrO4 → PbCrO4 + 2NaNO3
Prussian blue
3FeSO4 + 2K3Fe(CN)6 → Fe3[Fe(CN)6]2 + 3K2SO4
Chrome green
3 Na2Cr2O7 + ½ S8 → 3 Cr2O3 + Na2SO4 + 2 Na2O + 3 SO2
Bismuth yellow
NaVO3 + Bi(NO3)3 + H2O → BiVO4 + NaNO3 + 2HNO3