Seems like the artist makes an effort to pull together references from artefacts, historical iconography, textual sources etc

https://nitter.net/JoanFrancescOl1

https://www.artstation.com/jfoliveras/albums/332188

  • glans [it/its]
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    11 months ago

    Afaik prior to chemical dyes the color blue could only be created from indigo and wode. When i see a lot of blue it makes me consider..... supply chains.

    Red has multiple sources but i wonder what this person is thinking of.

    Their other pics have men draped in the beautiful deep royal purple obtained by crushing cochneal beetles. Extremely expensive. The color schemes are similar across works even though they seems to be depicting different times places and contexts. And dont have much of the colors that are easier to obtain like brown, grey, yellow and green. So i guess its the artists asthetic. ?

    • mechwarrior2 [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      they use very vibrant colors, for sure. but they are depicting mostly high status individuals, these aren't meant to be common people in regular everyday clothing

      here's a reply where he mentions purple https://nitter.net/JoanFrancescOl1/status/1705491453051281682#m

      and some where he mentions blue https://nitter.net/JoanFrancescOl1/status/1708376733924167857#m https://nitter.net/JoanFrancescOl1/status/1708029647072477656#m

      https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavonado