Virtual Student Guide Tour: Red, Yellow, and Blue, with Adam Sella

Date: 

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums—Online

In this tour, Harvard student, Adam Sella, explores the action of red, yellow, and blue in three works of art. For red, it’s a panel from Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals (1962); for yellow, the painting A Nayika and Her Lover (c. 1660–70) by an unknown artist from India; and for blue, Pablo Picasso’s Blue period painting Mother and Child (c. 1901). Taking our Forbes Pigment Collection as a springboard, the tour also looks at the material basis of these colors, their history, and their power to stir emotions.

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