05: Cobalt Blue w/ Isabella Segalovich - Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies
For its fifth installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies (finally) presents a true prime color. . . COBALT BLUE with guest Isabella Segalovich (@interstellar_isabellar), Professor of Interior Design at Kean University and member of the New York Crit Club faculty. She is also a writer, teacher, and content creator who educates on the intersections of art, design, and politics and regular contributor to Hyperallergic.
Join us as we discuss an abbreviated history of blue - from its fleeting and rare presence in nature, to humanity’s attempts to harness and assign meaning to it. Key moments include Egyptian blue, Ultramarine and YINmn blue.
Through a scientific breakthrough in the early 19th century, cobalt blue would become the steadfast true blue pigment missing on the painter’s palette, leading artists like Eugene Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Vincent Van Gogh and Richard Diebenkorn to use cobalt in their varied and expressive visions.
And lastly, we also dig into our associations with COBALT BLUE - which ranged from ocean hues, expansive skies, otherworldliness, happiness or even fresh crispness - all through data compiled by the Art Slice Pantrémon from clinical participants.
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Check out Isa’s book recommendation, Color, Light, and Wonder by Idries Trevathan here.
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C. 15th century Ming Dynasty example of blue (cobalt oxide) and white Chinese porcelain.
Detail of Ultramarine fresco ceiling by Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy. C. 14th century.
Dendera Temple complex ceiling detail featuring Egyptian blue, Dendera, Egypt. C. 1500 BC (Eighteenth Dynasty).
(Detail) Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night Over the Rhône, 1888. Oil on Canvas.
A form of YINmn Blue or Oregon blue, discovered in 2009 by Mas Subramanian.
Ecco the Dolphin, Sega CD ROM, c. 1993. Watch a game play here.
Ecco the Dolphin, Sega CD ROM, c. 1993. Watch a game play here.
Little Isa in mosque alcove, Isfahan, Iran 2004. Courtesy of Isabella Segalovich.
Tablecloth maker, Iran 2004. Courtesy of Isabella Segalovich.
A tour guide at a mosque, Iran 2004. Courtesy of Isabella Segalovich.
Gumbaz Synagogue, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Built in 1891 by Bukharan Jews.
Park Guell designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1900 featuring blue mosaic ceramic tiles.
‘El Drac’, designed by Antoni Gaudi, Park Guell, 1900 featuring blue mosaic ceramic tiles.
Blue Meanie from The Beatles’ The Yellow Submarine movie, 1968.
Julio Torres as Andres from Los Espookys.
Jack White in the midst of his blue period.
