WHY ARE WE ATTRACTED TO THE BLUE OF THE SKY AND THE SEA? AND THE MOUNTAINS? ANIMATING STONE

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This didactic panel—“How is Blue Made?”—shows students the four pigments of blue that appear in The Blue Boy. Photo by Lisa Blackburn.¹

THE BLUE BOY

The costume is based on the Blue Boy, popular when the portrait was purchased by the Huntington and moved to the United States. The Blue Boy (c. 1770) is a full-length portrait in oil by Thomas Gainsborough, owned by The Huntington in San Marino, California. 

Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770. The Huntington Museum

Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (Spanish, 1870–1945), “The Bullfighter ‘El Segovianito,'” 1912, Oil on canvas. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Algur H. Meadows Collection, MM.71.08. Photo by Kevin Todora.²

Claude Monet's House, Giverney, France
Did Claude Monet Learn His Extraordinary Use of Color From His Brother, a Pigment Chemist?³

Dance at Bougival, Pierre August Renoir, 1883, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

AMARYLIS, PIET MONDRIAN, WATERCOLOR, 1910, FAUVISM, PRIVATE COLLECTION.

 

"Good Bokah", Kathy B. Shapiro

Dimitri Rybaltchenko, artist for Hermes of Paris, France.

Footnotes

¹Deep Learning in the Science of Art Conservation Posted on Wed., Jan. 23, 2019 by Amanda Hernandez and Kristin Brisbois.

Link: https://huntington.org/verso/2019/01/deep-learning-science-art-conservation

²Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (Spanish, 1870–1945), “The Bullfighter ‘El Segovianito,'” 1912, Oil on canvas. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Algur H. Meadows Collection, MM.71.08. Photo by Kevin Todora. Paris is Looming: Canvas & Silk at SMU’s Meadows Museum, Dallas, Betsy Lewis, 2022. LInk: https://glasstire.com/2022/01/04/paris-is-looming-canvas-silk-at-smus-meadows-museum-dallas/b 

³Did Claude Monet Learn His Extraordinary Use of Color From His Brother, a Pigment Chemist? A New Show Looks at the Influence of Léon Monet

The show includes never before seen paintings by Monet, as well as his adolescent sketchbooks.

Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 15, 2023.

References

The Huntington Library and Museum, Blue Boy article: 

https://huntington.org/search?keys=Blue%20boy

Alain Truong

http://www.alaintruong.com/

Pinterest:  https://pin.it/3ANEgyn

Pinterest Hermes:  https://pin.it/4pV0zP9

https://alaintruongdotcom.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/vietnam-through-the-eyes-of-5-artists-at-sothebys-hong-kong-aug-29-2019/

Hermes, Dimitri Rybaltchenko

https://dimitrir.cargo.site/about

 https://exquisiteartichoke.com/collections/search-by-artist-dimitri-rybaltchenko