Chinese Song has no paint
Ancient chemical dyes, people are extracted from the color of plants, minerals, such as the use of cinnabar ore extraction of red, with ocher extraction soil yellow used to dye cloth, but also with Impatiens and other extraction of red, pink to produce rouge Wait. From the Northern Song Dynasty paintings "Qingming River" on the characters of the clothing color point of view, the Song has a lot of pigments.
China has long been the use of minerals, plant dyes on the fabric or yarn dyeing, and in the long-term production practice activities, master all kinds of dye extraction, dyeing and other technology to produce colorful textiles, ancient shells calcined The more alkaline lime (calcium oxide). Silk and silk fabric after repeated alkaline ash juice or ash treatment, put the fiber outside the majority of sericin removed, is conducive to dyeing. Pretreatment of fabrics before dyeing - "Drunting" mostly in the spring ("spring storm training"), then began a large-scale "summer 纁 mysterious, autumn dye summer" ("summer" means five colors) dyeing production activity.
Yes, the following figure author Zhao Ji, professional emperor, also known as Song Huizong
600 years ago originated in Europe, about 15th century by the Dutch invented, with linseed oil to reconcile the pigment, in the processing of cloth or wood painting, because the oil paint does not change color, do not become a variety of colors to reconcile Dirty, the painter can draw rich, realistic colors. Oil paint pigment opaque, strong coverage, so the painting can be from deep to shallow, layer by layer, so that the painting produced three-dimensional. At the end of the 14th century, two of the painters of Netherland, Van Ecker Brothers (Young Van Ecker and his brother, Hubert Van Ecker), found a simple method of painting oil, Purely oil painting. Although the historian of art can not conclude that the love grams brother is the inventor of oil painting, but at least they are on the basis of previous tests found an ideal oil-based painting media formula. Many experts believe that their greatest achievement is in the oil by adding a natural resin, so that the pen fluent, the media quick-drying. Young Van Ecker's "Arnolfini's Wedding" and his most famous work "Ghent Altar" (now hidden in the city of Ghent, Belgium, St. Bavin church, composed of 23 paintings. ) Is considered to be an important work in the history of European oil painting.
