The Colour Reference Library at the Royal College of Art is one of the largest collections of printed works on the subject of colour anywhere in the world.
London, UK
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Job Opportunity at The Royal College of Art: Special Collections Officer (0.8FTE) jobs.rca.ac.uk/003-25
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✨Abstract deadline extended for 'The Hand-Colouring of Natural History Illustrations in Europe, 1600–1850'! If you missed the previous deadline you now have until July 7th to send us your abstracts for a 20-minute paper.
@giuliasimonini3
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✨Less than 2 weeks left to submit an abstract for the workshop ‘The Hand-Colouring of Natural History Illustrations in Europe, 1600–1850’, with guest speaker @Saschaloske.
Full #CFP below and at arthist.net/archive/41690
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Only a few tickets left for this talk by me on artists' palettes - the pigments they carry, how they were made, used, collected and became symbols of art and style.
Wednesday 26 June, 11 a.m. in the Old Courtroom @BrightonMuseums: brightonmuseums.org.uk/event…
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Psychedelic dinosaurs, four-dimensional hummingbirds, and how we got our vision – fascinating read on color, consciousness, and the dazzling world of tetrachromacy themarginalian.org/2022/08/1…
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🎂📖Today marks our 183rd anniversary! 🎂📖
To mark the occasion, we delved into the safes to share the book that started it all when we opened our doors on 3 May 1841… 📚✨
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On the occasion of the publication of The Book of Colour Concepts (@TASCHEN) I was invited to pick five of the best books on colour for the May issue of @TheArtNewspaper . Historical books not included, it was nonetheless a tough call. Guess who is on the list?
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"Colors are not possessions; they are the intimate revelations of an energy field... deep, resonant mysteries with boundless subjectivity... Our lives, when we pay attention to light, compel us to empathy with color."
Beautiful read: themarginalian.org/2021/06/0…
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I have a new talk coming up, in which I air my fascination for artists' palettes. It will premiere @BrightonMuseums on 26 June, 11am. Info & tickets:
Artists' Palettes Through Time: From Rembrandt’s golden browns to Winifred Nicholson’s prismatic violets brightonmuseums.org.uk/event…
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Today’s artwork celebrates the birthday of Josef Albers 🎈
The German born American artist, one of the most influential abstract painters of the twentieth century, was born on this day in 1888.
Interaction of Color
🎨 Josef Albers
📅 20th Century
🏛️ Bechtler Museum
ALT A painting of four rectangles of color with smaller grids inside, in yellow and blue colors.
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Albert Henry Munsell (1858–1918) envisioned his colour categorisation system as akin to musical notation, bearing a specificity that aimed to liberate chromatic description from commercially-driven colour names: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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#WarburgWednesday So what do the colourful stickers mean on the spines of some of our books? They are the remains of a colour-coded classification system once in use in the Library. Each colour equals a different letter.
ALT A piece of cardboard showing different coloured slips of paper and the letters that each one represents.
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There is pink sadness, "the sadness of shame when you have done nothing," and blue sadness, "the sadness of reverie and nostalgia"... Poet Mary Ruefle's emotional color wheel of sadnesses: themarginalian.org/2020/04/3…
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Some lovely pictures coming through from the Mary Gartside booklaunch last night, taken by Clive Boursnell. Thank you all for coming, friends, colleagues, editors, fellow authors ... Too many to mention, but among them @HettieJudah, Ian Warrell, @Colour_Library, @simon_schama
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As an @RCA_Writing MA student many years ago, a tour of the Colour Reference Library sparked my research on 'Werner's Nomenclature of Colours' (1814). Glad to see it still taking pride of place in the collection, alongside Mary Gartside's impressionistic colour blots.
Haven't hosted a group visit in >3yrs (blame Covid) so delighted to welcome 22 thoughtful graphic design students from @UWEBristol earlier this week.
ALT Four books held open to show colour wheels and other illustrations
ALT Books set out on tables ready for a presentation in the Special Collections room, and a colourful slide projected on to the wall behind
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Alchemy Meets Jewellery is a one-day symposium exploring the cultural history of manipulating the material world.
Hear from expert historians, museologists and jewellers on the intersection of two cultural traditions.
📍 RCA Kensington
📆 3 April
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We have been using primary colours to explore all the different tones that can be made inspired by Mary Gartside - moving children’s thinking beyond “red and yellow makes orange” and opening their eyes to the multitude of different ways that these three colours can be combined.
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this gif is even more intuitive I think xitter.cf/SteveStuWill/status/10…