27th Jan 2010
History of Oil Painting
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Some of the oldest civilizations including Roman, Greek, Egyptian and painting techniques used quite a lot. These civilizations used mixtures of beeswax and mineral pigments in tempera mixed. Although the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans knew vegetable oils, there is no sign of them took the painting. However, they use tempera, which a liquid is made of an organic binder, water and essential oils of vegetables. The organic binders were the Italiansespecially from animal sources like eggs, milk and animal glue.
However, from the end of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance in the 15th Century, has lost this ancient technique of painting more or less. Instead, artists used tempera and oil. In Italy and Greece, olive oil was used to make mixtures of pigments. However, this union a long time to dry. As a result, in the 12th century, he led a German monk named Theophilus Painter warnagainst the use of oil-based paints. In the 5th Century as a medical writer Aetius Arnideus mention the use of oil, such as drying of lacquer paintings in his writings. In the 8th Century perilla oil in Japan used after lead was added. During the 14th Century was instrumental Cennino Cennini a technique that has been demonstrated tempera painting by a light film of oil.
In the book of life of the artist Giorgio Vasaripublished in 1550 noted that the oil painting technique is now used (with minor modifications, of course) organized by Jan van Eyck, a Flemish painter to 1410th It is assumed that Van Eyck, the first painter of oil paint with linseed oil, which was used as a binder for pigments from minerals. His technique of using oil revolutionized the world of painting. The pictures ended brilliant and translucentwith a high intensity of the color. This gave the pictures a tin enamel that is visible even today in the paintings of Van Eyck.
Then, Antonello da Messina was the introduction of a new technical improvement of oil paintings. He used lead oxide in the mixture of pigment and oil, the drying can contribute to the color property.
After Leonardo da Vinci, who cooks the oil pigment mixture at low temperatures after the addition of beeswax, they came from. Thisto prevent that the resulting mixture always a dark color.
The Italian artist had to change to the original oil instrumental recipe, but they managed to keep secret for nearly three centuries long. This would explain why the Italian artists throughout Europe held in its brilliance and art.
In 1600, Rubens went to Italy and lived there for 9 years. He took the study of painting medium used in Italy and then made his own improvements. Theneach generation of artists has their own improvement in the medium of painting, and is used today, and non-edible vegetable oils in paints for the paint to dry faster. The most commonly used oils are tung oiticica, perilla oil, poppy oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, dehydrated castor oil and lots of fish oil. Today, iodine value of oils used for drying, classifying iodine number is greater than 130, that a dryOil, 130 to 115 as a half-dry, and not less than 115-drying.
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