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The Stuff of Art - an overview

Part 1. Alchemists and Artists: Ancient Ancestors

ancient and medieval arts - pigments - metallurgy - alchemy

periodic table - ions - solids & metals - chemical reactions - redox reactions - acid/base reacions

 

Part 2. Science Services Art; Art Services Chemistry

new synthetic pigments - new colors - new art - new science

emergence of organic chemistry - molecules - mechanisms

 

Part 3. Art (and Chemistry) in the Real World

color: detection & measurement - perception - mixing

detective tools: spectroscopy - microsopy - X-ray analysis

The Stuff of Art - a weekly schedule

 
Week 1
Lecture (Monday)
StudioLab (Wednesday)
Jan. 16
  • why this course?
Jan. 18
Groups A & B rotate among:
  • ancient arts
through
  • ancients pigments
Jan. 25
  • metal working (1)
  • ancient alchemy
 
  • lead white (1)
Week 2
Jan. 23
  • alchemy and painters
Jan. 18
  • alchemy and pigments
through
  • coloring copper I (2)
  • alchemy and religion
Jan. 25
  • coloring copper II (2)
         
Week 3
Jan. 30
no class
Feb. 1
no class
         
Week 4
Feb. 4
  • medieval paintings
Feb. 8
metal pigment syntheses:
Week 5
Feb. 13
  • medieval pigments
& Feb. 15
  • viridian
  • medieval problems
  • chrome yellow
 
  • harvesting verdigris
 
  • synthetic malachite
       
  • prussian blue
 
 
Week 6
Feb. 18
  • medieval frescos: methods
Feb. 22
  • making a fresco

 
 
Week 7
Feb. 25
  • medieval frescos: problems
Mar. 1

destroying a fresco
 

 

  
  • quiz

 
  • Results of Reason
       
Week 8
Mar. 4
Spring Break
Mar. 8
Spring Break
         
Week 9
Mar. 11
  • holding it all together
Mar. 15

binders:
       
  • pastels
       
  • tempera
       
  • oil paints
       
  • watercolors
       
Week 10
Mar. 18
  • new colors, new art
Mar. 22
StudioLab Practical
       
Week 11
Mar. 25
Mar. 29

dawn of chemistry

 

 

  

 
         
         
Week 12
Apr. 3
perkins' purple
Apr. 5

Color I: tickling out the truth
 

 

  
  • UV/vis spectroscopy
         
       
Week 13
Apr. 10

Color II: spectroscopy
Apr. 12

Color III: color vison

Color IV: color mixing
     
  • color lab
       
Week 14
Apr.17

Detective Work

Apr. 19
  • pigment identification
 
  • microscopy
  
  • distinguishing the whites
         
Week 15
Apr. 24

Stealing the Soul:
Apr. 26

Pin-Hole Cameras:
   
  • Photography
  
  • Taking, Developing, and Printing
   

Photographs
     

 
     

 
       

The Stuff of Art - a listing of studiolabs

Jan. 18
metal transmutation
through
coloring copper I
Jan. 25
metal working
verdigris
liver of sulfur
coloring copper II
lead white
Feb. 1
no class
Feb. 8,15
metal pigment syntheses: viridian - chrome yellow - synthetic malachite - prussian blue
Feb. 22
making a fresco
Mar. 1

destroying a fresco
Mar. 8
 Spring Break
Mar.15
 binders: pastels - tempera - oil paints - watercolors
Mar. 22
Lab Practical
Mar. 29
synthetic pigment: Perkins' purple dye synthesis
Apr.5

Color I: spectroscopy: UV/vis spectroscopy
Apr. 12
Color III and IV: color mixing: color lab
Apr. 19

analyzing pigments in a painting: microscopy
Apr. 26
pin hole camera photography