Conservation of Mode Oil Paintings

Conservation of Mode Oil Paintings

by: Klaas Jan van den Berg (Editor),Ilaria Bonaduce (Editor),Aviva Bustock (Editor),Bronwyn Ormsby (Editor),Mikkel Scharff (Editor), Leslie Carlyle (Editor), Gunnar Heydenreich (Editor),Katrien Keune (Editor)&5more

Publisher: Springer

Edition: 1st ed. 2019

Publication Date: 2020/2/18

Language: English

Print Length: 633 pages

ISBN-10: 3030192539

ISBN-13: 9783030192532

Book Description

Artists’ oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of issues that pose increasing difficulties to conservators and collection keepers. A deeper knowledge of the artists’ intent as well as processes associated with material changes in paintings is important to conservation, which is almost always a compromise between material preservation and aesthetics. This volume represents 46 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Conference of Mode Oil Paints held in Amsterdam in 2018. The book contains a compilation of articles on oil paints and paintings in the 20th Century, partly presenting the outcome of the European JPI project ‘Cleaning of Mode Oil Paints’. It is also a follow-up on ‘Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint’ (Springer, 2014). The chapters cover a range of themes and topics such as:patents and paint manufacturing in the 20th Century; characterization of mode-contemporary oil paints and paint surfaces; artists’ materials and techniques; the artists’ voice and influence on perception of curators, conservators and scientists; model studies on paint degradation and long term stability; approaches to conservation of oil paintings; practical surface treatment and display.The book will help conservators and curators recognise problems and interpret visual changes on paintings, which in tu give a more solid basis for decisions on the treatment of these paintings.

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Artists’ oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of issues that pose increasing difficulties to conservators and collection keepers. A deeper knowledge of the artists’ intent as well as processes associated with material changes in paintings is important to conservation, which is almost always a compromise between material preservation and aesthetics. This volume represents 46 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Conference of Mode Oil Paints held in Amsterdam in 2018. The book contains a compilation of articles on oil paints and paintings in the 20th Century, partly presenting the outcome of the European JPI project ‘Cleaning of Mode Oil Paints’. It is also a follow-up on ‘Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint’ (Springer, 2014). The chapters cover a range of themes and topics such as:patents and paint manufacturing in the 20th Century; characterization of mode-contemporary oil paints and paint surfaces; artists’ materials and techniques; the artists’ voice and influence on perception of curators, conservators and scientists; model studies on paint degradation and long term stability; approaches to conservation of oil paintings; practical surface treatment and display.The book will help conservators and curators recognise problems and interpret visual changes on paintings, which in tu give a more solid basis for decisions on the treatment of these paintings.