13-11-2018, 10:47 PM
Quote: Rene - "the argument about the palette of colours will be difficult to defend." - just f.y.i there's no need in English to say
'of colours' when speaking about the range of pigments used -i.e. palette.
FWIIW, if we are going to be pedantic, I would suggest you shouldn't say "range of pigments" in English to refer to colour as pigments are not uniform substances. A range, by definition, sorts things of a same type.
One can discuss "a range of pigments" to identify the pigment materials used (as the term is used in archaeology or conservation, for example). But it makes no sense to discuss, ie, " the range of pigment red" when cinnabar and Vermillion both produce red, but are very different substances with different sources, different uses and different usages. It is impossible to understand what pigment is being referred to when one speaks of "the reds produced by a pigment", because many pigments produce similar colours.
One can, of course, and often does, refer to a "palette of pigments" because a palette is delimited. But that's not the same as a range of pigments.