Conservation of Modern Oil Paintings

Artists’ oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of issues that pose increasing difficulties to conservators and collection keepers. A deeper knowledge of the artists’ intent as well as processes a...

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Other Authors: van den Berg, Klaas Jan (Editor), Bonaduce, Ilaria (Editor), Burnstock, Aviva (Editor), Ormsby, Bronwyn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Challenges of Surface Cleaning Paintings by Asger Jorn (1914-1973): An Inventory of Existing Practice.-Decision-making processes regarding the treatment of modern oil paintings (1950’s – present) exhibiting paint dripping and oil exudates
  • Between rejection, ignorance, and preference: The history and dilemma of modern double-sided (recto/verso) paintings with regard to issues of conservation and presentation
  • Model studies
  • Novel microscopic strategy for the study of paint cross-sections
  • Investigations into the mechanical properties of commercial artists’ oil paint by Dynamic Mechanical (Thermal) Analysis (DMA), Nanoindentation (UNHT), and Dynamic Vapour Sorption (DVS)
  • A Preliminary Investigation into the Behavior of Modern Artists’ Oil Paints in a Hot and Humid Climate
  • Inside the forger’s oven: identification of drying products in oil paints during and after accelerated drying with increased temperatures
  • Challenges in research: Connecting scientific analysis with conservation practice
  • Evaluating cleaning systems for use on water sensitive modern oil paints: a comparative study
  • Paint Technology
  • Pigment Surface Treatments: 20th and 21st century industrial techniques and strategies for their detection
  • Meet the future: the creation of new pigments
  • Zinc oxide in oil-based house paint: Insights from a paint chemist’s notebook dated 1949
  • A Glimpse into the House and Decorative Paint Market in Norway During World War I (1914–1918)
  • Approaches to the identification of Royal Talens’ ETA (emulsion) paint in objects of art
  • Synthetic organic pigments in Royal Talens oil paint 1920-1950 – The case of vermillion imit
  • Case studies: artists techniques and materials; degradation; ethical considerations; treatment options
  • Ellsworth Kelly: The Studio and Beyond
  • A new vocabulary of color: Bocour oil paints and Barnett Newman
  • The influence of metal stearates on the water sensitivity of modern oil paints
  • The rate of solvent action on modern oil paint
  • Conservation treatment
  • Water-sensitivity in modern oil paintings: Trends in phenomena and treatment options
  • Modern oil paintings in Tate’s collection: a review of analytical findings and reflections on water sensitivity;
  • Analytical study to monitor the effectiveness of a combined liquid-dispensing and micro-aspiration system for the cleaning of modern oil paintings
  • Ketone resins varnishes on canvas paintings from the collection of the Munch Museum
  • Designing mock-up paintings for a study of novel surface cleaning techniques for Munch’s unvarnished Aula paintings
  • Analysis of cleaning efficacy and clearance of silicone-based Pickering-type emulsions used in the cleaning of water-miscible oil paints
  • Improving the surface cleaning of water sensitive oil paint by use of alternative application methods; M. Hintz et al
  • Diagnosis and conservation process of major curled-up delaminated areas in a black oil painting from 1960 by Pierre Soulages.-Examination of paint delamination in C'est grace à nous by Asger Jorn
  • A synchrotron photoluminescence microscopy study into the use and degradation of zinc white in The Woodcutters by Bart van der Leck
  • ‘Breaking waves’. The relation between zinc-oxide degradation in a ground layer and extreme delamination on Beach Scene, by J.E.H. Akkeringa (1861-1942)
  • Efflorescence on the paintings of Edwin Austin Abbey: Examination, analysis, and cleaning of surface bloom on The Spirit of Light
  • A Study of Softening and Liquefying Oil Paint on Womenizer by Alex Janvier; K. Helwig et al
  • The Deterioration and Treatment of Some Late Paintings by Paul-Émile Borduas
  • Colors before Zero: commercial alkyd-oil enamel paints in early reliefs by Jan J. Schoonhoven
  • Some considerations when cleaning Robert Ryman’s oil paint(ings)
  • Evolon® CR microfibre cloth as a tool for varnish removal
  • Can Cellulosebeads save the Circling of the Planets? Cellulose-based consolidating filler to stabilise lifted brittle flakes on a large painting
  • Analysis of Modern Paints and Conservation at the Clyfford Still Museum
  • Pigments of Soviet Artists in the 1950s - late 70s
  • A View Through the Meander: A Study of Knifer’s Oil Paintings from the 1960s
  • Preservation of Russian Abstract Art of the Second Part of the 20th Century
  • Investigating colour changes in red and blue paints – a preliminary study of art materials and techniques in Edvard Munch’s Old Man in Warnemünde (1907)
  • Aspects of Lovis Corinth’s Painting Technique in his late Work: Working Process and Colour Structure captured in Paint and on Film
  • Oil paint straight from the tube: paint-specific deterioration in works by Alexis Mérodack-Jeaneau, 1910-1913
  • Picasso 1917: Failure Mechanisms in the Paint Layers of Four Artworks
  • Investigation on the speckles syndrome affecting late 1920s oil paintings by René Magritte