UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW TALK

This event is onsite in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom

Booking is essential

With Madeline Hewitson, Research Assistant for the Colour Revolution exhibition and Chromotope research project

Discover the revolutionary impacts of scientific and technological discoveries on the use of colour in Victorian art, fashion  and design in this talk with our Colour Revolution exhibition researcher.

While the influence of science in Victorian art has been well documented, less has been said about colour as one of the key meeting points between these two fields of cultural production.

Chemistry revolutionised Victorian fashion through the invention of synthetic dyes and the field of photography.

However, it was biology, the study of organic nature, which proved to be the most fertile ground for the influence of scientific discovery on artistic production. 

A November Rainbow, Dolwyddelan Valley by Alfred William Hunt, 1866 © Ashmolean

Synthetic dye samples, the Berlin Aniline Co, wool, card, c.1900 © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford

Study of a kingfisher, John Ruskin, watercolour, 1871 ​© Ashmolean

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This event takes place onsite in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 to attend

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