He completely flew over the importance of azurite as a painting pigment. It was the most used blue pigment during the middle ages (a thousand years! but then again he did call that period 'the dark ages', so...), and was -and still is- used in Japan and China as the main blue pigment at least from the 10th century.
@liamthompson93428 жыл бұрын
Excellent speaker.
@billy-joes68518 жыл бұрын
Blue is his house with the blue little window and his blue corvette do dah dah di dah dah dah.
@i.c.y.9 жыл бұрын
This is so interesting. Amazingly interesting :) thank you for posting this.
@fourclaws9 жыл бұрын
Great Q & A at the end :)
@chiefandkat6 жыл бұрын
What about Maya Blue! Anthropologists have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual, widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts across Mesoamerica from A.D. 300 to 1500
@pnutbutrncrackers6 жыл бұрын
The YInMn discovery would now make an excellent extension of this lecture on the wonder of blue.
@kale11opez948 жыл бұрын
Blue is a very positive color.
@TesserId7 жыл бұрын
So, how come he doesn't have blue suede shoes?
@jinxedsphinx36002 жыл бұрын
word to Mac Miller?
@montyray61632 жыл бұрын
I love the blue
@J0eCh0p9 жыл бұрын
what about woad
@hippojuice237 жыл бұрын
J0eCh0p Woad dude! (sorry-had to!)
@BIZEB7 жыл бұрын
Woad is a source of tincture, or dye, not a pigment.
@apexxxx106 жыл бұрын
J0eCh0p ...Woad ???
@VNeto942 жыл бұрын
What about Mayan Blue????
@matthiasschulze3939 жыл бұрын
wish he would have went onto organic chemistry, indigo and Tyrian purple...and then of course Perkin dyes and then BASF today
@mostirreverent9 жыл бұрын
blue flowers...Centaurea Cyanus
@maggienwillbyhigh Жыл бұрын
Captioning.... :-/
@Suite_annamite9 жыл бұрын
Indeed, "ultramarine" is a shade of "blue", because traders who needed it had to go all the way "across the sea" to Afghanistan to acquire it.