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Do you want us to see any of these? I'm already wasting your time.
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No problem. I'm interested.
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These are the pictures that are in high resolution, if you want we can see one
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that catches your attention.
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I know the painting from the Barberini collection well. I was in front of that painting studying it.
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Judith and Holofernes.
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That.
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It's spectacular, I love that painting.
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What do you want us to see?
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You shared some images, if you go to her face.
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This is incredible.
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There you realize. You did a very good analysis.
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In the corner you can see, in the corner of the nose you can see there is a dead layer of color.
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In the corner of the nose below the projected shadow of the nose.
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There you can see that there is a dead layer of color and the Velatura goes on top of that dead layer of color.
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My opinion is that Caravaggio's grisaille tended towards green.
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Because I have seen a type of Verdaccio.
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If you go a little higher.
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On her eyebrow, there you have a little bit of that mint green color. That color under there.
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It is a little bit of color,
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it is only visible in the upper part of the eyebrow and the white with color goes on top.
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And there is another other area between the hair and the skin. There you can see that mint green color again.
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And it is a suspicion that I have had, that his preparatory layer was a mint green color.
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Obviously you know that Cennino mentions the use of Verdaccio and there you can see that,
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most likely, he applied a first layer with this type of mint green color.
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And he applied a relatively opaque Velatura on top.
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There on her neck. There you can see that grayish-green color.
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It is the same thing that happens in Vermeer. It is not a black and white grisaille,
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but rather a layer of dead color. Using a limited palette,
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on top of that he intensifies the paint with
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vermilion, lead white, and yellow ocher to saturate the color.
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These dots are the pigment.
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The surface is very smooth. I have seen this painting and it is very smooth.
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It is evident that he dilutes the surface preparation.
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And there you can see the fineness of that Velatura that he applies directly on the Underpainting.
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He applies it on top to blur that edge.
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The underpainting is this brown and these whites with a thick texture
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and on top of that the Velatura. It is a semi-opaque Velatura.
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Exactly, all those Velaturas that he applies have an amount of white.
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It is semi-opaque, not completely opaque. It must also be said that over the years
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the paint deteriorates a little.
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These scratches are from cleaning, from abrasion. And we must also take into account
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that the oil is transforming with the 400 years that have
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passed, it is becoming thinner, more transparent. I have a question.
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There are no brush strokes here. You see this thick brushstroke that's underneath.
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But then these colors that are on top you don't see where the brush stroke starts and where it ends.
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Is this also effect of time?
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I think it is the result of manipulating the paint. If you use squirrel brushes, they give that effect.
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A squirrel brush has the ability to literally erase brush strokes.
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Just like a sable brush, but dare I say the squirrel brush is much softer.
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I have always used the squirrel brushes to blur. And I dare to say that
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the quality of the painting is also extraordinary,
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because I saw this work in person and it has a great handling in the modeling of forms.
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Once he applies the paint, he manipulates it.
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He applies the paint and smoothes the paint. He manipulates it to erase the brushstroke.
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It is evident that the painting is manipulated. You achieve this effect by working with a dry squirrel brush.
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You apply the color and then with a dry squirrel brush you erase the brushstroke.
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Not like a painter like Velázquez who leaves the brushstroke visible.
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Like here in the hair, where the brushstroke is clearly visible.
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Another question, these reds...
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Vermilion.
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Is it a Velatura of red or is it a mixture of red and white?
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I see lead white mixed with vermilion applied semi-opaquely
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over a layer of paint below. That pink color is directly above.
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I say this not only because of the quality of the physical aspects that you see here,
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but the painters of the past always used the most expensive pigments in the
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last layers. Makes sense. You do not want to use an expensive pigment
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in the initial layers that you are going to cover. That is related to
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Vermeer's technique. This is exactly what happened in the reconstruction of the
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Vermeer painting that I did, in which Vermeer is using a dead color underneath.
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I dare not say a grisaille, because it is not strictly black and white, it had some color.
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But the saturated color is worked as an accent in the last layers.
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And it makes sense, it is not only something to do with technique, but also with cost savings.
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If they apply a saturated color, they apply it directly.
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Another example is when they used a layer of Azurite underneath and a layer of Lapis Lazuli on top.
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Here you can see the two layers of primer.
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There's a warm color
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underneath and then this ocher with black. This gray is obviously a restoration.
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That makes sense. Why the red ocher below? It's cheap, it's clay.
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It is to cover, to level the surface. Dries spectacularly,
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flexible in oil. Very flexible. I have several surfaces here
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that I have prepared with red ochre,
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I have rolled them and over the years they are completely flexible.
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In fact to paint steel, I don't know if you have noticed that they
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always use red ocher underneath and apply the saturated color paint on top.
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They are using the same strategy.
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There you can see the dead color under the arm.
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When I began to investigate how this was done, I
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saw some videos where they used grisailles like in the 19th century and I said, it may or may not be, I don't know.
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I don't see it here. And then another video that said: Caravaggio painted Alla Prima.
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But here I see a layer that is below. And a confusion is created.
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There were two or three comments that said: Caravaggio did not paint like César says.
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Others said, ask Luis what he thinks of your video so he can get us out of doubt.
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It is not that I have invited you to confirm what I say, but clearly there is a layer underneath.
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My answer would be,
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when I give an opinion I like to give it from a research point of view.
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We are here doing a very extensive analysis of not only the layers.
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There you can see, he's literally touching up with color.
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This, for example, is one layer and then, once it has dried, another layer is applied. Stop the image for a moment.
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When the brushstroke drags it means that what is below is dry.
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The evidence is clear and convincing.
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That drag, the brush stroke broke and that means the paint below was dry.
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When the paint breaks, when it drags,
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the bottom is dry. It is great evidence.
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If you look and see in between, you will see that there is a much cooler color underneath.
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There is like a greenish color.
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Those little greenish dots that you see at the end of that brushstroke,
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that's evidence of that layer that is a layer, I'm not saying it's a grisaille, it's a
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dead greenish layer of color. There are some unfinished paintings by Valentin de Boulogne that I studied
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in this same gallery, in the Barberini Palace.
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They have a painting of Valentin de Boulogne,
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and Boulogne was working on a brown background with grisaille.
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And there is an unfinished painting in grisaille.
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Did Caravaggio work with grisaille or did he not work with grisaille?
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I think all of the above.
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My opinion is that he, in some areas, in some figures,
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he probably painted them with grisaille but
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in others he didn't. Each painting must be taken as a separate case.
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And that is what I think many youtubers fail.
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I have seen some demos where they use only white.
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Just white and they don't do any mixing.
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And in some paintings Caravaggio painted that way.
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In the painting of Santa Úrsula for example. We have to match
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the technical study with the painting. And observe each section.
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Each section and each painting is a different case.
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Just saying, "This is Caravaggio's technique" is very simple.
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I also studied this painting at the Uffizzi and that face is painted with a lot of opacity.
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This is very different.
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Very opaque. This reminds me a lot of Titian's painting.
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It has more drag, the paint is much denser.
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He's not using the bottom layer as much. He is mixing the tone and applying it.
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With Velaturas to deepen the nose.
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This shadow, the shadow is placed on top. This brown color.
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Yes, it is noticeable that the consistency of the paint is
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much more transparent and he applies it to give volume. It shows there.
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It is only in some areas.
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This looks more painted like a Flemish master.
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On a light background or a light primer.
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Applying the shades opaquely. It's not the technique you looked at earlier where he leaves the underpainting visible.
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It is another technique.
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That is why it is important to define what painting, from what period.
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Saying this is how Caravaggio painted is a simplification.
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This other painting is seen worked in a more direct way.
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That one is in the Borghese Gallery.
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The underpainting is not so noticeable. It looks more opaque, the lights are painted with a lot of opacity.
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You can see a bit of an initial dead color.
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But dare I say it's mostly opaque paint. A limited palette
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of four or five colors and then layering the colors wet on wet.
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I see it more directly. I don't know if this is a Velatura placed on top of the dry.
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Yes it is, it looks like a red organic lacquer
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reinforcing the edge and the shadows.
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White is painted relatively opaque.
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Vermilion is also quite opaque. I don't see anything fancy there, other than opaque paint.
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It also has a lot to do with the circumstances. They order a painting
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from him and he has to paint it in a month and he says, I can't give 20 Velaturas here.
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It is a more direct painting, there are some strokes with paint underneath.
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And on top of that there is a very direct painting.
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I experimented with Murillo's technique and I also have a
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small painting I made of Caravaggio. And when you work with a dark background
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it is very difficult to create solidity in the painting. You have to paint very opaque.
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To get that light effect that Caravaggio gets you have to initially paint
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relatively opaque on the lights and then go back and apply the Velaturas.
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But in those first layers it is almost a race to be able to
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free yourself from this very dark background. In his late period he
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worked with dark chocolate colored backgrounds. In the London Bacchus period,
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he works more with an orange base and that will obviously have an influence on the technique,
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on how the master captures his painting and the effects he achieves.
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When I work with a gray background, I work in a
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completely different way than if I'm working with a dark background.
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That is very important to analyze, that's why the color of the base is very important.
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In fact, here you can see how he has left the background color visible.
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This is painted solid.
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This is the base color. On top of that he paints the color of the skin and then the Velatura.
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This red, for those who have doubts,
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this red is on top of the nail and on top of the background color.
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Here are these two shades.
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This one that is grayer and this one that is more reddish is the Velatura that is over this entire area.
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This red is a Velatura.
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And it makes sense because you're using a more expensive, brighter color, which goes on top,
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to make the color stand out. A golden rule that I have found in most of these painters is:
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Cool below, warm above. The cold recedes and the warm advances.
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We see these cool, greenish tones.
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Also worth mentioning is the “Hazy Midtone Effect”.
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You mean these shades.
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Yes, when you drag the light paint over the dark background and create an optical gray. And even if you're using
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a saturated palette, the paint is going to look a little grayish.
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That's one of the biggest reasons to work with a dark background to create
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those cool tones underneath. In fact, here you can see that the restorer painted gray, he said,
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it has gray and he painted it gray, but it did not reach the original quality, which is a gray made of two layers.
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Yes, it is an optical color.
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If you go down to the drape of the angel.
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That white portion that is next to the arm.
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right there
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These shades of gray, he's taking the
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lead white paste and dragging it along. And in that drag, when it breaks, it's creating an optical color.
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And that gray cannot be mixed. That gray is achieved by applying the paint little by little.
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You create that modeling by controlling how you manipulate the brush stroke.
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It takes a lot of skill to do it. You have to have the correct load on the brush.
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And another thing, I confess, the pigment has to be perfectly ground. Because if it
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's too thick it doesn't slide and it doesn't break. And it doesn't give you that subtle gray.
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So that the people who listen to us can visualize it better, it would be like the difference between a titanium white and a zinc white.
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They are completely different and you cannot do the same effects with both.
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Back then, when they only had lead white, they
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used different degrees of grinding to make different effects.
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And there one realizes the technical arsenal.
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I had teachers in school who told me: don't use a dark background,
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why are you going to use a dark background? that turns yellow and transforms.
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So one says, but why did Caravaggio, a painter who
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was coming out of the Renaissance, with spectacular painters practicing the Flemish method,
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like Andrea del Sarto, who worked on a white plaster base, put a light primer
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and his paintings are in perfect condition. Why did Caravaggio decide to go the
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other way and use a dark background? And the reason, my opinion, is that one can paint very quickly.
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You can literally set the light blocks, you veil the shadows,
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you already have the gray color mixed in for the transitions, you define and you're done.
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It is more difficult to cover a white base. It is more difficult to cover the white color, yes.
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The technique is very interesting. But I think, for the audience that is listening to us,
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The analysis has to be done at the individual level, there has to
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be a research process, especially if one wants to adapt
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some of these techniques in one's personal work. That's what it's about.
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We are learning an arsenal of techniques for us to use creatively.
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And one must remain open to those possibilities, not define, not say: Caravaggio painted this way.
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Rather it should be said, Caravaggio used these tools, on some occasions.
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Each painting is a world of experimentation.
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This is another painting where you can see that the color is saturated. You see a direct painting.
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Surely there was something underneath, to model the shape, you can see there's a
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warm layer underneath, but on top of that there's this very thick grayish-green layer.
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It looks like malachite.
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Surely it had a more vivid color originally.
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I love this contrast of gray with red, but surely it had a more vivid color.
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I think so and malachite, like azurite, are copper-based pigments and change.
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They rust.
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But these paintings, I saw them, I was crazy about them, they
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are spectacular and the effect of color and light is solid.
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The light mass is painted solid. I have used, in some of my studies,
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Caravaggio's technique as a starting point for painters like Murillo.
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Those techniques found their place in the south of Spain via Jusepe de Ribera,
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Francesco Ribalta and all these painters. There you can see that the mass of light is solidly painted.
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That's not a Velatura that they put lightly on that background. It's loaded, it's pasty.
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And then these reds are Velatura. It is right.
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I want to make a clarification.
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When I say Velatura, many people can misunderstand me and say,
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if Caravaggio used Velaturas, that means that I mix red cadmium and dilute it with oil
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and what I put in is a wash. But Velatura has a range of transparency and opacity.
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It's quite a range.
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Let's clarify, what do we specifically call Velatura? Because
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oil can range from the most covering and opaque to the most translucent.
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At what point on the scale do we say that the Velaturas begin? Who knows. There is a whole range.
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And it is the task of the painter to investigate it. It is important not to go to extremes and say,
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"Luis and César said: give a Velatura, and then I have to dilute it like a watercolor."
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The paint can be more opaque or less opaque.
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How does one decide how much opacity? While one is working one discovers it.
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We refer to Velatura when there is something underneath that is working.
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But it's a whole range. It's good that you clarify it because sometimes
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in my videos it's hard for me to explain all these things in such a short time, but
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right now fortunately we are detailing it. I say, I apply a Velatura
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but a beginner may have a hard time understanding what we mean specifically.
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The same about Caravaggio, I made four or five videos about Caravaggio,
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in one I show one thing, in another I show something else, because it is not possible to cover so much information.
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The studies of techniques are books of this size where
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the brightness of this eye is analyzed, it is done like this, this is underneath, there are four layers.
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But that doesn't mean that the whole painting is painted like this, just that sparkle in the eye.
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Another thing that is very important as well, while we do this exercise that
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is very interesting and obviously something that many people are going to benefit from.
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It cannot be ignored, I think that is obvious, but I want to mention it again,
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the virtuosity of the painter in handling his materials cannot be ignored.
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How can the painter handle a color in a certain way and bring it to transparency?
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I have made many mistakes interpreting paintings where I have thought:
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It was painted this way but in reality it looks this way.
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That has happened to me with Velázquez. In Velázquez you see his loose, spectacular and masterful brushwork.
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And he painted mostly opaque in a lot of areas, but he does use a lot of Velatures.
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But at one point, the Impressionists came on the scene in the 19th century and
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in the 20th century we see Velázquez as a painter who strictly painted Alla Prima.
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Not at all! He was not an Alla Prima painter. Although many people, even my teachers told me:
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You must paint like Velázquez, paint alla prima.
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I have here a book called Velázquez, technique and evolution.
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It has all the chemical analyzes from the Prado Museum, it is spectacular.
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And it was not the case. Velázquez was not an Alla Prima painter. He used a lot of Velaturas too.
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That movement, which is still going on, which in English is called "Atelier Movement".
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Where everyone is going back to the techniques of the 19th century,
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everything is seen through the eyes of the 19th century, they pigeonhole the techniques.
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Rembrandt is explained by starting with a grisaille and blending the paint onto a very smooth surface.
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And I say, Rembrandt did not paint like that. In its early years maybe yes.
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But he evolves from that and starts working with impastos.
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And there are people who have promoted this. That mentality of the French academy.
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And I say, that's so limited versus all the Great Masters that came before,
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who worked loosely and with a lot of expression.
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I think that has to be investigated and questioned, because it has become
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something like if you do figurative art you should only do it that way.
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Now that we mention the 19th century academy, I have seen many paintings by Ingres in which his skins are
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worked directly. They do not have a black and white grisaille.
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Black and white grisaille was used, but it wasn't that everyone used it for everything.
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In some specific cases it was used, but not always. Bouguereau himself, what I have managed to see,
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I have not seen in-depth studies but I see that from the first layer he begins to apply color.
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He applies a local color base and then begins to model the figure with almost direct paint.
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I completely agree.
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It is interesting because I believe that the answer lies in Pacheco's treatise. He says, I almost
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have it memorized: "There are several ways to work, some start with
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black and white, others work with white, carmine and umber, this is an easy and comfortable way for those
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who do not have much skill in drawing. But I am
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of the opinion that you should start working with all colors."
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There he defines Velázquez. You read that and you say, Velázquez took that, that influence.
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It is evident how he is painting directly.
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Perhaps in Bruegel, Bosch, Van Eyck, there is indeed a black and white grisaille.
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But it is a very different result. It was obviously used.
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I think it is a tool, one more tool.
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I use grisaille, when I'm painting drapes, I paint them black and white or
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white, black and brown or Umber and it gives me a beautiful color and is perfect for a white drape.
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And that is considered a grisaille. I teach my students how to work a grisaille.
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But I don't think that's "everything" in painting.
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I think it is important to know and learn it as one more tool, but I don't think it is a matter of saying:
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we are all going to paint with grisailles and this was the only way for the Great Masters and end of story.
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Rather know when it works. Anyway, Luis, thank you very much.
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For me it is a pleasure, I knew that this was going to be extensive because I know that we have many things in common.
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I really appreciate the invitation and support. That is very important.
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Let's do good things, I think it's an exciting time to be an artist.
00:38:04
Thank you very much Luis, we are in contact, thank you, greetings. Bye.

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