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When the Anonymous Society of Painters first exhibited work outside the established institution of the Salon de Paris, no one could predict themomentous influence the Impressionists (as they are now referred to) would have on the art world.
Impressionists sought to capture the atmosphere, amoment in nature and to explore the use of colour around objects. The new style was toomuch for some critics. Theodore Duret, a French Journalist and supporter of the artists summarised “In summer sunlight reflected by green foliage, skin and clothing take on a violet hue. The Impressionist painter paints people in violet forests, so the public loses all control. Critics shake their fists and call the painter a vulgar scoundrel.”
Purple Purple is a colour long associated with royalty or spirituality. Tyrian Purple, was the colour favoured by Julius Caesar, so much so, that he denied anyone else the privilege of wearing the colour. It required thousands and thousands of sea snails to produce a tiny amount of dye. royalty, spirituality, nobility, luxury, power
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The snails were farmed and to create the dye they were crushed to expose a gland which contained one drop of colourant, this was then fermented in urine for days before the cloth was added. The smell of urine and rotting shellfish ensured the vats were placed beyond the city walls of Tyre. Traditionally this purple dye was incredibly expensive and arduous to produce and only people of high nobility or extreme wealth could afford it or were allowed to wear it. In the third century AD a pound of purple-dyed wool cost around three times the yearly wage of a baker.
It wasn’t until a synthetic dye was created in the nineteenth century that themiddle classes could afford to wear purple, whenWilliamPerkins created a mauve dye by accident. He was trying to find a cure for malaria and instead invented a popular purple dye. Purple, aubergine, lavender and mauve are amix between red and blue, warmand cold. Dark purples create a moody atmosphere and work well combined with rich sumptuous textures. Lavender, like its namesake, is often used in holistic therapies for its sedative and relaxing benefits.
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