Fun Fact Friday- Blue

Fun Fact Friday- Blue

This is a part of my series of fun fact Friday mini episodes about different colors. This week you can learn a bit about the history of different pigments used to create blue in artworks. For a long time, blue pigment was more valuable than gold. Blue pigments were so labor intensive and expensive that some prominent artists like Michelangelo were said to have left some paintings unfinished because they could not afford more blue paint. While we see blue all around us in the sky, the water, even people's eyes, blue pigments are relatively rare in nature. There is no blue pigment in people's eyes, just as the sky does not have blue pigment. Blue eyes, and the blue of the sky are just optical illusions produced by the shorter wavelengths of light scattering more readily through the gasses in earth's atmosphere or in the case of blue eyes, the way the light scatters through the fluid in the stroma of the iris. As always, you can find more at www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Fernand Léger | Composition in Blue

Fernand Léger | Composition in Blue

Fernand Léger was a pioneering French modernist painter whose foundational training as an architectural draftsman profoundly shaped his structured, geometric approach to art. After absorbing the influ...

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Stuart Davis | Swing Landscape

Stuart Davis | Swing Landscape

Stuart Davis was an influential 20th-century American modernist painter who bridged European abstract movements like Cubism with distinctively American subjects and aesthetics. Born in 1892, Davis stu...

10 Aug 12min

Tamara de Lempicka | Tamara in a Green Bugatti (encore)

Tamara de Lempicka | Tamara in a Green Bugatti (encore)

Tamara de Lempicka remains the definitive icon of the Art Deco era, blending polished Cubist techniques with the glamorous, high-stakes atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties. From her harrowing escape du...

7 Aug 10min

Artist Interview Emil Wilson | The Nightingales

Artist Interview Emil Wilson | The Nightingales

My guest this week is Emil Wilson, the author and illustrator behind the new graphic novel, The Nightingales. Wilson started his career in advertising before attending art school in his fifties, spurr...

3 Aug 43min

Francisco Goya | The Third of May 1808 (encore)

Francisco Goya | The Third of May 1808 (encore)

Francisco Goya (1746-1828) is one of Spain's most important and complex artists. His career bridged the gap between the Old Masters and the modern era. He found success as a court painter for the Span...

31 Jul 16min

Neil Harbisson | Cyborg Artist (encore)

Neil Harbisson | Cyborg Artist (encore)

Neil Harbisson is a contemporary artist who hears colors. He deliberately chose to hear colors and to make that happen, he underwent surgery which has caused him to become the first person ever to be ...

27 Jul 9min

David Hockney | A Bigger Splash (encore)

David Hockney | A Bigger Splash (encore)

Explore the life and work of David Hockney, one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Born in Yorkshire in 1937, Hockney's rebellious spirit and prodigious talent wer...

24 Jul 16min

5 Artists Who Take Playing with Their Food to a Whole New Level (encore)

5 Artists Who Take Playing with Their Food to a Whole New Level (encore)

Today I thought it would be fun to switch things up a little bit. Instead of focusing on just one artist and artwork, I’ve got 5 artists who work with food in ways most people would never consider. ⁠J...

20 Jul 9min

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