Stories in Colour
de The National Gallery
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These are the stories of how colour has changed the world. 'Stories in Colour’ is a vibrant new podcast from the National Gallery in London.
In each episode, we uncover the hidden mysteries woven into colour from antiquity to the present day.
Along the way, you'll hear from curators, scientists, historians, artists, and more experts, looking at humanity’s efforts to make colour and make meaning with it.
And amongst these stories, you will see - and hear - the National Gallery’s paintings in a whole new spectrum of light.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcast
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- Pink is for girls, blue is for boys · 58 min · Saison 2 Épisode 8Have you ever wondered whether pink really is for girls and blue for boys? In our final episode of series two, Beks is joined by Dr Vien Cheung, Associate Professor at the…
- The hunt for the blackest black · 36 min · Saison 2 Épisode 7Today we're on a hunt with artists through time, searching for the blackest black. We’re after the deepest blacks, the most accurate blacks and the most atmospheric blacks. Beks…
- Rediscovering history’s women colour theorists · 50 min · Saison 2 Épisode 6You might have heard of men like Isaac Newton or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but who were the pioneering women writing on colour theory? To answer that question, we’re joined by…
- Decoding paintings through colour · 46 min · Saison 2 Épisode 5How do the colours artists choose – and the ways each of us experience them – help us find a story? Join Beks and author Chloë Ashby as they take a closer look at how to ‘read’…
- The mauve measles: when purple went viral · 51 min · Saison 2 Épisode 4A teenage chemist’s accidental discovery didn’t just revolutionise colour history – it sparked a viral Victorian colour craze! Cultural historian Kassia St Clair joins Beks to…
- Deadly chemical cousins: oranges and yellows · 42 min · Saison 2 Épisode 3What makes two volcano-born pigments so dangerous? Hint: they weren’t scorching hot when artists used them. Orpiment and realgar both contain arsenic, a foe we’ve previously…
- A blue more expensive than gold − ultramarine · 52 min · Saison 2 Épisode 2Travel with us beyond the sea to look at ultramarine, a pigment that was once even more precious than gold. In this episode, writer Victoria Finlay joins Beks for a discussion on…
- What is synaesthesia? Can you hear colour? · 53 min · Saison 2 Épisode 1Welcome back to a new series of 'Stories in Colour'. To kick off, we’re tackling one of the topics we received the most questions about − synaesthesia. Join Beks and this week’s…
- Stories in Colour Returns – Series 2 Trailer · 1 min · Saison 2What does colour sound like? Why was mauve the brat green of the Victorian era? And is pink really just for girls? Welcome back to another series of 'Stories in Colour', the…
- The story of gold: modern imaginations (part three) · 59 minWhen the artist Louise Nevelson immigrated to America as a child, she was told that ‘the streets... would be paved in gold’. Obviously, they weren’t, but that hasn’t stopped…
- The story of gold: devotion and design (part two) · 53 minWhen did gold become a colour? In this episode we journey from the majestic mosaics of the Byzantine era to the brilliantly burnished panel paintings of the early Renaissance to…
- The story of gold: ancient origins (part one) · 51 minWelcome back to Stories in Colour! And welcome to the first episode of our new miniseries in which we'll be telling the story of a rare, sparkling and glistening colour – or…
- The Story of Gold - Miniseries Trailer · 1 minWelcome to a new miniseries of ‘Stories in Colour’. The National Gallery’s vibrant podcast returns to tell the story of a rare, sparkling and glistening colour – or should we say…
- Painting the rainbow · 1 h 3 min · Saison 1 Épisode 8What exactly is a rainbow and how is it formed? Why does it have seven colours? And what have rainbows symbolised in mythologies and art? Join colour expert Dr Alexandra Loske…
- How snails made purple a royal colour · 53 min · Saison 1 Épisode 7Why do we see purple as the colour of royalty? It all starts on the Mediterranean coast with some unassuming, and eventually very unfortunate, seasnails. Travel back to ancient…
- The fear of colour: chromophobia · 45 min · Saison 1 Épisode 6Where did all the colour go? And how might Western culture have feared it, or deemed it superficial, in art and philosophy? We celebrate the 25th anniversary of seminal book…
- Don’t eat your deadly greens · 1 h 0 min · Saison 1 Épisode 5Why does the colour green remind you of poison and radioactivity? We're telling the story of two toxic green pigments to find out. Their stories interact with artists like Berthe…
- Why we feel what we feel about colour · 45 min · Saison 1 Épisode 4We're asking how we feel about colour – or more accurately how colours make us feel – and whether that's the same for all of us. Join colour specialist Zeynep Sagir and National…
- How bugs turned the world red · 59 min · Saison 1 Épisode 3We're on the search for the 'perfect red' with a pigment and dye that was so prized that it inspired international espionage and piracy, carried the death penalty if exported…
- The first modern synthetic pigment · 44 min · Saison 1 Épisode 2Meet an enigmatic pigment discovered entirely by accident at the start of the 18th century. Its story involves a rogue inventor with an unlikely connection to Doctor…
