‘The Wolf and the Fox,’ 1733, Jean-Baptist Odri (French, 1686–1755); Black ink and gray wash increased with white opaque watercolor on blue paper; Frame design in black ink, gray wash and blue water color; 31.1 × 26 cm (12 1/4 × 10 1/4 inch). Getty museum
Paper is a wonderful piece of technology, the effect of its popularization can be felt on a trip to the Morgan Library – or any library. Without paper, we will not have gutinberg bibbles that promote Protestant improvements, greenbacks that fund the American Civil War or Kovid -19 mask, who sowed seeds for each other.
A Kovid-era project that was just introduced at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, “Drawing on Blue: European Pictures on Blue Paper, 1400s-1700s,” is an impressive exhibition that focuses on a medium of great importance for Renaissance Italy, enlightened France and beyond. Originally renounced blue rags was made, and popular in Bologna, Blue Paper was a low -cost option for white that was often used as a cover for purchase and was preferred by artists not only its price but not only its price but also for its tone.
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This impressive show has approximately forty paintings, most of which come from the collection of the museum and all of which push the boundaries with paper. Blue paper specifically allowed for a rich form of chiroskuro. Look at the rhegen Christ (c. 1510) of Bartolomo Montagna, which is combined with a gleaming upper body rich in the loot of Demegode that reflects the light from its aura. Cornellis Johnson Van is dancing to a woman’s jewelry, upper wrist and pearl in Selen’s Study of a Woman Hands (1646). The manufacturer of the modern graphics card calls this effect as Ray Tracing, and the van sealane receives it with blue paper, black chalk and white chalk.
‘Study of a woman’s hand,’ 1646, Cornelis Johnson van Selen (active in English, England and Republic of Dutch, 1593–1661); Black chalk increased with white chalk on blue paper; 19.1 × 29.5 cm (7 1/2 × 11 5/8 in.). Getty museum
Blue paper was used quite differently in France, Spain, Italy and Dutch Republic. As the excellent list explains, the blue concept bears different meanings in different languages. In German-speaking areas it belongs to “fraud, ignorance and deception related”, but the tuscan dialect is “a common word deficiency for blue, instead used manifestations obtained from dye and textile industry to separate specific huge (Azuro, Turchino and Celesterino).”
The portfolio of Jean-Baptist Odri has a few thousand paintings, of which seventy percent of which were on colored paper, which he performed to make visuals affected by the prosperity of fairy tales and to create scenes of nature. Wolf and the Fox (1733), who was included in the show, was used to portray an episode in the legends of Jean de la fontane, in which a wolf helps a fox to disguise themselves as a hunting, only to fly his cover to Fox when he listens to a chicken and goes on to blow it. To fly. In drawing, the Shepherd is miling the ideal and drunken mine on the hill, evil with wolves and evil eyes in the foreground.
Technical development is not too much to keep them for good use without visionary. This diverse and ambitious exhibition shows what can be done when such development is dropped in the era of fertile mind.
,Drawing on Blue: European Pictures on Blue Paper, 1400s -1700sThe Getty Center is seen through April 28.
