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Color Portrait: In the later decades of the nineteenth century enlargements of portrait negatives were frequently made on photosensitized canvas specifically for the use of the artist. One supplier boasted that the emulsions on their prepared canvases were "so thin that they in no way interfere with the very threads of the canvas, nor in the least take away from the beautiful receiving properties of the prepared oil-ground."3 Thus the origin of the painted portrait was completely disguised.
The first attempts to produce color automatically, by photographic means, was a search for a substance which, chameleonlike, would assume whatever color was shining upon it.
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Methods akin to water-color painting, such as fresco and tempera painting, have been used from the beginning of art. Illuminated manuscripts and portrait miniatures are executed in water color and body color, but these form distinct branches of art in their own right. Again, the brush has been used universally alongside the pen and the chalk as an implement for drawing. It was only a short step from the use of monochrome washes in drawings to the use of color with pen or chalk outlines, and many of the Old Masters made drawings with these materials. |
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