17-11-2018, 04:24 AM
Koen - absolutely right, but in the technical sense a pigment is anything that lends colour to another substance. The range of pigments is therefore the range of materials (simple or compound) employed to lend colour to any sort of vehicle, whether it might be a vat of mordant or an oil for painting.. In fact we do tend to speak of media in classes.
However when we do speak of a painter's palette, or the palette found in a certain time and region, or a specific manuscript, we speak of the 'palette' only, since the term 'pigments' is redundant.
My advice to Rene did not require connection; it was not ill-intentioned and - not to overemphasise the fact - it comes from almost forty years continuous work in the field of iconographic analysis (scholarly and technical).
In future, any member of this forum who finds it a pleasure to publish assertions whose only purpose is to publicly demean my character or competence are invited to email me directly and express their sentiments directly.
If I haven't time to respond in person, I'll have some friend respond on my behalf. Saves bothering the moderators here, doesn't it?
However when we do speak of a painter's palette, or the palette found in a certain time and region, or a specific manuscript, we speak of the 'palette' only, since the term 'pigments' is redundant.
My advice to Rene did not require connection; it was not ill-intentioned and - not to overemphasise the fact - it comes from almost forty years continuous work in the field of iconographic analysis (scholarly and technical).
In future, any member of this forum who finds it a pleasure to publish assertions whose only purpose is to publicly demean my character or competence are invited to email me directly and express their sentiments directly.
If I haven't time to respond in person, I'll have some friend respond on my behalf. Saves bothering the moderators here, doesn't it?