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 Why preserve an artist’s palette? The daubs of raw pigment or the mixes left in position can be an intriguing index to the working method and the mind of the artist. And most, once the status of art had been elevated above the realms of mere craft, would paint themselves palette in hand.
-Where and how colour is laid can convey emotion, psychology, religious significance. “The whole value of what you are about” wrote John Ruskin in his Elements of Drawing, first published in 1857 “depends on colour. If the colour is wrong, everything is wrong: just as, if you are singing, and sing false notes, it does not matter how true your words are.”
+Where and how colour is laid can convey emotion, psychology, religious significance. “The whole value of what you are about” wrote John Ruskin in his Elements of Drawing, first published in 1857 “depends on colour. If the colour is wrong, everything is wrong: just as, if you are singing, and sing false notes, it does not matter how true your words are.”\\
-Auguste Renoir
+Auguste Renoir\\
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 Auguste Renoir\\
+Georges Seurat\\
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 Georges Seurat\\
-Georges Seurat
 Seurat stuck rigidly to colour theory for his painting La Grand Jatte. You can see from his palette, above, that he obeyed the theory of Cheuvreul. He believed the basic colours red, yellow and blue reach the eye with different wavelengths and are mixed on the retina of the eye. Consequently Seurat kept his pigments in order on the palette, only adding the complimentary colour (red/green or violet/yellow), which is what creates the impression of fizzing light, on the canvas itself. Black was outlawed, since it was defined by the physicists as non-light.\\