. The ancients hardly used it or talked about it, except at times in Egypt. . But the first, audacious claim has to be false. Lavishly illustrated. Artist Berthe Morisot used cerulean along with ultramarine and cobalt blue to paint the blue coat of the woman in A Summer's Day, 1887. First New Blue Pigment in Over 200 Years is Being Made into a Crayon, 3,500-Year-Old Unfinished Obelisk Reveals Incredible Engineering of Ancient Egypt, The Evolution of Picasso’s Painting Style and What Each Artistic Choice Represents, Everything You Need to Know About Hokusai, the Painter of ‘The Great Wave’. But the author tends to repeat the same insights over and over again, as if padding the page count. Blue was first produced by the ancient Egyptians who figured out how to create a permanent pigment that they used for decorative arts. Thanks to this study, which is certain to become a classic, blue will never look the same again. Emma has contributed to various art and culture publications, with an aim to promote and share the work of inspiring modern creatives. No pun intended. Blue was helped along by being unregulated... a lack o. However, in order to use it you had to be wealthy, as it was considered to be just as precious as gold. With sidelights on the economic battle between woad and madder (red) dyers, Protestant austerity and blue, Young Werther's blue coat and yellow trousers, blue jeans and the BASF company. I really enjoyed reading about how the color blue changed through the ages. So fascinating! This book is filled with such fun facts. I wrote a 300 word review for this book and it was eaten by the GR popup :(. . (Photo: Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0)), Pablo Picasso used the Prussian blue pigment exclusively during his Blue Period, and Japanese woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai used it to create his iconic The Great Wave off Kanagawa, as well as other prints in his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series. The color blue continued to evolve for the next 6,000 years, and certain pigments were even used by the world's master artists to create some of the most famous works of art. No pun intended. "—James Davidson, Daily Telegraph, "Taken together, the earlier volumes on blue (2001), black (2009), green (2013) and red (2017), plus the new book, [Yellow,] represent ‘an edifice’ that [Michel Pastoureau] has been working to build for half a century: a history of colours in (for the most part) Europe from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the 18th century and beyond. He painted over 200 monochrome canvases, sculptures, and even painted human models in the IKB color so they could “print” their bodies onto canvas. Listen to the latest episodes. While she writes every day, she’s also devoted to her own creative outlet—Emma hand-draws illustrations and is currently learning 2D animation.