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| Martin Luther, Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder |
“…black really came into its own with the Reformation, whose leaders and artists led a full-fledged revolt against the pomp and display of the Catholic Church. Martin Luther is generally depicted in the most sober of blacks, while the era’s painters began to favor tenebrous colors in even their most dramatic compositions.”
-From “The Color that Wasn’t a Color” article in ARTnews reviewing Black: The History of a Color
Beautiful slideshow will take you through the traditional process of dyeing yarn purple with Murex in Oaxaca, Mexico. (Found this while inspired by my Colors book, even though I haven’t gotten to purple yet. I did learn in my blacks and browns chapter that, similar to the Murex process, the color sepia comes from ink excreted by a cuttlefish.)
Last night I came across Sol LeWitt’s Tower (Columbus) reduced to a heap of rubble. It took me a second to realize what had happened. The bricks filled a surprising number of orange bins. This sculpture was part of a nice installation in City Hall Park; I wonder what will come next.
