Color scheme : an irreverent history of art and pop culture in color palettes / Edith Young.

"From the various shades of pink used by artists to describe the blush of Madame de Pompadour's cheeks to Helen Frankenthaler's orange color fields to Prince's concert costumes, Color Scheme is a collection of palettes that reveal new ways of thinking about larger arcs in visual culture."--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Edith (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Color in art.
Colors > Miscellanea.
Couleur dans l'art.
Couleurs > Miscellanées.
ART / General.
Colors.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Genre:
Miscellanea.
Miscellanées.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Physical Description:143 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Art History
  • Contemporary Art
  • Pop Culture.
  • Introduction
  • The reds of the red caps in renaissance portraits, 1460-1535
  • The artist's palette
  • The blush of Madame de Pompadour's cheeks, 1746-63
  • Art history
  • The art history detective
  • The dresses worn by Velazquez's infantas
  • Frans Hals's ruff collars
  • Palettes
  • The pupils of the eyes in Vermeer's portraits, 1656-72
  • Caravaggio's boy with a basket of fruit, 1593
  • The yellow bills in John James Audubon's
  • The birds of America, 1827-38
  • The blue bills in John James Audobon's
  • The birds of America, 1827-38
  • The blush of Marie Antoinette's cheeks
  • Thanksgiving in America, 1825-2009
  • Seascapes, arranged along one horizon line
  • The mountaintops of the diorama paintings in the American museum of natural history
  • Helen Frankenthaler's orange color fields
  • Charles Burchfield's violets and violas
  • The stripes in Alice Neel's portraits
  • The flesh tones of Lucian Freud's ex-wives
  • Fairfield Porter's skies
  • Contemporary art
  • The typologists
  • Palettes-- The artist's palette, from Anguissola to Botero
  • The blues of David Hockney's pools
  • Botero's beverages
  • The paint on Kerry James Marshall's smocks
  • The greens of the garnishes in Wayne Thiebaud's still lifes
  • Etel Adnan's suns
  • John Currin's blondes
  • The letter "E" in Mel Bochner's paintings
  • Pop culture
  • The color strategy
  • Palettes
  • Tonya Harding's figure skating costumes per competition
  • Prince's concert outfits
  • Paul Thomas Anderson's oeuvre
  • Craig Sager's suits, in chronological order over the course of his sportscasting career
  • Walt Frazier's suits, in chronological order over the course of his NBA career
  • Title cards from the second season of Saturday Night Live, 1976-77
  • How Pete Davidson dresses from the waist up on weekend update
  • Spike Lee's eyeglasses, 1989-2020.