A story of blue
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2014
- Blue has long proved a problem for artists. There are few blue materials in nature that can serve as pigment for painters. During the Renaissance period artists used a pigment called natural ultramarine, lauded for its rich and striking appearance.
In this Nature Video, we visit London’s National Gallery to hear the story of natural ultramarine; where it came from, how famous painters used it, and how advances in chemistry during the 19th century enabled the production of a synthetic version which revolutionized painters’ palettes.
The National Gallery exhibition, Making Colour, tells the story of blue and runs until 7 September. See here for more details: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/wha...
To read a Nature review on the exhibition, click here: www.nature.com/nature/journal/... - Věda a technologie
was he wearing all blue for the video or was it a coincidence?
I make this paint at home using old techniques all the time with lapis it is one of the most beautiful paints ive ever used. Its truly amazing ancient science.
You ever combine it with eggs to make tempera paint?
@@dubuyajay9964 no eggs, a lot of plant extracts and a natural jojo like oil almost like joba oil. I used the recipe used in Pompeii and Babylon. From research I think its the same blue from the Egyptians.
I love how this guy is wearing blue like it's nothing because it is. What a time to be alive.
He was on brand . fairly common in the industry
He has a really nice soothing voice, to be honest. Really pleasant to listen to :)
Blue is my favorite color
Love2knowIT blue is the warmest color.
Kris Cuz blue is in fact a cold color
@potato lover it's a reference. google it.
Kris Cuz ops sorry i didnt know :P
I like blue too
My favorite kind of blue is
Sky Blue!!
It explains everything. I went to Romania, Monasteries were painted with blue paint. They made a big deal about the blue paint and I didn't understand why after all these years now I know why. Lol
I am from Afghanistan and lapis lazuli in Afghanistan is called Lajaward (لاجورد)
Surprised that "egyptian blue" or calcium carbon silicate wasn't mentioned. It was considered to be the 1st synthetic pigment according to another video.
He said Prussian blue was the first modern synthetic pigment, which it was. Egyptian blue was the first known synthetic pigment, but it was an ancient pigment.
Because they don’t care about another culture
Thank you for sharing, Nature. :)
The guy keeps getting quieter towards the end of each of his sentences :/ anyways interesting video!
Dan Ansett yes it's hard to follow
Dan Ansett Its also the tendency of someone who speaks a Latin language. Its also common in some Asian languages too. Even people of French, Spanish or Italian decent hereditaraly maintain that vocal pattern even if they were born speaking another language. Its also the reason so many people of English decent talk that way, considering the English are mixed with French and Italian too.
Dan Ansett Oh god, my mother does that. It has nothing to do with the language you speak. It's irritating as hell, tho.
Dan Ansett i didnt notice until i read the comments haha
Interesting. I know people who get quieter - to get you to lean in and pay attention. It's more of a one-on-one technique though. This should be more of a public speaking style delivery. What we have here is very frustrating for the hearing impaired, especially since auto-subtitles haven't a clue what he is saying, either.
Excellent video on the history of ultramarine.
The dislikes were Ron, becky didn't want blue
*lemme smash*
Perpetual KillMachine u want sum fuk?
Vincenzio Pinzauti ...
No Ron, your tail is small
BitChEs lOve StiCKs
i'm taking a music history class and there is a painting mentioned in the textbook
The Blue Boy - by Thomas Gainsborough
trying to understand why it is so famous
and it must be because the color blue was majestically in some way, in the process of getting it
The way that guy pronounces ‘chance’ sends shivers down my spine.
Very relaxing video to watch before sleeping
the discovery of the murals behind the bamiyan buddhas after they were blown up in afghanistan kinda changes the history of the use of colour dramatically.. by about 900 years
nikkii daniels in Mexico is one of the oldest paintings in the world and one of the basic colors on it it's blue so history changes too
Very interesting video! Thanks.
Maybe add subtitles? The ones provided by youtube aren't accurate enough.
please subtitle this in portuguese!!!! It´s great material for us to use in teaching!!
Thanks for the information.
WHat about both "Egyptian blue" and "China blue"; both were being used far earlier that any blue pigment mentioned here.
Tenar10r actually lapis and azurite are older than either Egyptian blue or Han blue.
Egyptian blue was invented coz lapiz lazuli was so expensive even back then.
beautiful
"Oh I'm talking about blue today?" Throws on a blue shirt.
you'll find that writers often wear white shirts when their book is the centre of the discussion and fashion designers often wear all black to not distract from their work. color is used in real life to send messages .it may sounds funty to you but its fairly normal.
I used a think they used blue flowers back in the day. Somehow
my favorite blue
What does the blue, yellow or red color symbolize in painting?
We are lucky to choose any types of painting colour in this industrial age.
No mention of Egyptian Blue or the late Classical/Early Medieval Germanics making blue dye and paint out of plants (I forget which plant it was)?
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Awesome !!! I make colour pigments too !!!
Not even a mention of Cobalt Blue?
And Cobalt Blue is in my mind the most beautiful colour there is. Hope there will be another video on that.
Alphasys Cobalt blue was used way back in the day, but it was used in porcelain because there had to be LOTS of heat. Cobalt didn't really become a painting color until the industrial revolution.
Will there be a part two of the story of blue? Because I don't think the story is done yet.
A3Kr0n Blue Too has a good ring to it ,, can't wait now
There will be a trilogy and then a prequel coming to a cinema near you. It will be called Fifty Shades of Blue, Fifty Shades More, etc., etc. ad nauseam.
You should have mentioned the indigo plant once.
Amazing video! I'd love to know the song name though
Does anyone know the harp music that accompanies this video?
top comments are literally the thoughts in my head while watching this video
Blue was iconic.
This guy sounds like that dude from Numberphile!
I have a lot of problems understanding what he's saying :(
Doofus
@@noahgordon9435 BE nice ! Some people have problems with accents when they're not used to hearing it everyday. No point to be nasty
Sir plzzz tell about c.p.c blue
Amazing video! Thank you
Lapis lazuli, azurite, prussian blue, french ultramarine... every one a star
I just made a video on my channel talking about Prussian Blue. Atop that, i show how to make it!
Why wouldn't you include the words for Lapis Lazuli in the video description? People might be searching for that term.
Arthur, google searches leads straight to here without it .
song title please. ..thanks!
Blue 🙆♀️💙
Fascinating. Love this. If you can't understand what he's saying, turn it up and listen more carefully! Lazy ears
Are you still mean to this day? Do you know that there are deaf people out there? How can “turning the volume up” can help them? Good day
i wonder if they reveal more secrets about blue because it doesn't cost that much!
Wow I just realized I have no life after watching a documentary about the color blue
Zach Leno Is acquiring knowledge of the natural world, and how it works worthless to you?
+weirdzfully unfortunately most people would say yes these days..
Actually, it proves you have a life, you're searching and taking in knowledge of the world around you.
Zach Leno hysterical laughter 🤘🏽😂👍🏽
He's apparently an amateur CZcams rabbit-hole tripper......
Interesting video. But lacking important information. 1. History of indigo color. 2. Isatis tinctoria, also called woad , dyer's woad, or glastum, in the family Brassicaceae. It is occasionally known as Asp of Jerusalem. Woad is also the name of a blue dye produced from the leaves of the plant.
Yes, but those are dye colors not pigments, here they are talking about the pigments
What about blue produced by Indigo?
Song name plz?
What about woad?
👍👏👍👏👍👏👍👏👍👏👍👏👍
No mention to Prussian Blue being used to help heal heavy metal and certain radioactive isotope poisoning. Good ole mistakes!
Josh Boucher It's a seven minute video on paint pigments...
I was just stating a fun fact of 'blue'. Albeit a bit off topic from the origin of blue. Just making a public statement of some of the astounding miracles of nature that this video didn't touch on. sheesh
What is the music? (and don't say Darude- Sandstorm)
darude sandstorm
Polish Sausage I'd like to know as well. The harp is exquisite
What about indigo plant, they were blue
This is a great video. Everyone subscribe. Very good quality explaining and interest capturing education and non-fiction. 🤓
Who else got it as recommendation in 2021?
I can't understand a thing being said
KalaTurtle why?
I relate
هل يمكن صبغ الملابس
Even his shirt is blue
how bout blue waffle
Megálos Epitychia must Google blue waffle immediately!
how about blue balls
Ono
😂😂😂
How about blue african
Blue Falcon.
see the crips were like i like blue
Lapis is use for enchanting in minecraft
Where My ♿rips At
I'm Blue da ba dee da ba daa.
Thankyou. I've been singing this song in my head since the beginning of this video and didn't quite know how to put it into words.....
Hey girl.. You want some Blue? She doesn't want Blue...
Aqua pagent
oh my the CC on this is quite funny. I can only wince at the misinformation the actual deaf must suffer at the hands of inaccurate closed captioning
he suggest,
when I saw this video I immediately though of Meryl Streep schooling Anne Hathaway about cerulean in The Devil Wears Prada.
I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa
Nobody cares if you're blue.
Wtf? How minoans have blue dyes on 2500 bce?
So, what gives the blue color to some portions of glaciers?
Its the same reason the sky or water is blue; the blue light (shortest wavelength) scatters the easiest so its the color we see. All the other colors are absorbed within the ice.
Josh L That doesn't explain blue ice adjacent to white (colorless) ice in glaciers.
true, but that is because when glaciers form the snow that falls (white) has not been compressed into ice (blue). The lose particles of snow reflect light much better than ice does, making it white and the light that does make it into the ice part then absorbs basically all the light except blue.
Refraction of sunlight. Essentially it's the density of the medium combined with your viewing angle.
emlmm88 I doubt that. I've seen videos of glaciers from helicopters that change angle of view in all axes without any change in color of the blue portions. Instead, the blue appears like a dye or pigment.
didn't people know of indigo
Well it looks interesting but the guy drops to a whisper so much that there's no way to get most of what he says.
He's saying "lapis lazuli".
nectavius ikr.
Dude, I can't understand half of what you're saying...which is a shame cuz it seems interesting!
Aw not captioned.
Aw
@@ahmedfaraj2121 seemed to need some time. wow 6 years. live captioned now
Yeah it took a long time lol
Too quiet
There is no history of blue without mentioning Yves Klein´s Blue... What a pity they didn't include it in this piece.
Bårdbåtbirgerice gran furuholmen...
Ragnhild syvertsens
So if i see blue its not really blue just an illusion. Ok
Aaquantisolostice
He eats the ends of his sentences. Good video though.
Debbie Ebbiebobebbie omg I was thinking the same exact thing I wanted to slap the words out of him, it was sooooo annoying!!!
Some of these blues look purple lol
The male narrator swallows the second half of each sentence, down to a whisper. Even the woman explaining ultra marine does it. How annoying!
the 12th Century Europe? lol
sound sucks
you should call it iceberg blue a happy name
llama
Blue llama?
i think west world doesn't know about indigo 😂😂, indians used it before ur history started ....yeah 4000BC
BORING
No u
i LOVE blue this is why i clicked on it but i got bored so im clicking off :c
Thanks for trying, I think this would have been interesting. It turned out to be a man mumbling. I only caught a few words.
you both should practice speaking in public, all the erm, aah, eh mmm, makes you both sound unsure of what you are actually trying to get acros. you notice across the board with lecturers, tv announcers, even presidents and ministers. is this how one try to impress others? it sounds so unprepared speaking off the cuff when you are not 100 % familiar with your subject. just a tip, nothing nasty meant by it. M
not a good video. bad video. SAD.
lapis lazuli = AQUAmarine