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Ivory Black

Ivory Black 43KT05

Ivory Black - 43KT05

Foto: ©Alistair Overbruck, Kunsthalle Tübingen. Zitat: David Sylvester: About Modern Art. NY, 1997, S. 397. Text: Katrin Trautwein ©ktCOLOR 2025.

Blacking agents, i.e. charcoal obtained from animal and plant remains, are ancient colorants. Vegetable blacks are made from various wastes such as vines, fruit stones, nutshells, coffee grounds, chestnuts, cork waste and bark, while animal blacks are made from bones. Artists favored noir ivoire or “ivory black”, a romantic name for bone blackening. Its opacity, rich depth and velvety effect are remarkable and for the abstract expressionists it was a sacred color. "It was their lapis lazuli; they made a mystique of it, partly because of its austerity, partly perhaps because there was soemthing macho in being able to produce a good strong black,” writes David Sylvster. Jackson Pollack, Rembrandt and Le Corbusier used this particular black. It is like jet-black velvet and astonishing in its depth. No color is as absolute in its withdrawal, so that everything in the foreground unfolds a phenomenal luminosity.
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