The Science of Paintings

• Main Authors: Taft, W. Stanley (Author), Mayer, James W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2000.
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching.; Fine arts.; Chemical engineering.; Physics.; Cultural and Media Studies.; Fine Arts.; Physics, general.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.

The beauty, mystery, joy, and inspired observation of the human spirit that paintings evoke result from a complex of intuitive and cognitive choices made by the artist. An understanding of the genesis of these choices can be as elusive as the resulting imagery, but great paintings seem to initiate i...

Table of Contents:

• The Structure and Analysis of Paintings
• Paint
• Organic Binders
• The Painter’s Color and Light
• Color and Light
• Optics of Paint Films
• Beyond the Eye
• Detection of Fakes
• Object of Interaction.