colours 2022

Bridging Science
with Art

Modern and contemporary artworks

Programme

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS AVAILABLE HERE
Final Program

Day 1 - Wednesday - 14 September

09:00-10:00 Registration and check-in at Colégio do Espirito Santo (Auditorium 131)
10:00-10:30 Opening cerimony
10:30-11:00 Plenary Lecturer 1 - Mariana Pinto dos Santos
Almada Negreiro's work under, for and about the Portuguese dictatorship of the Estado Novo.
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
S1: Colour history and symbolism in the 20th and 21th centuries
11:30-11:50 01. On the study of Porto's murals (1930-1970): state ofthe art and preliminary results.
Monteiro, P. T., Vieira, E., Gil, F., and Castro, L.
11:50-12:10 02. Decoding a drawing: Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Fátima glass works colour scheme.
Simão Palmeirim
12:10-12:30 03. Colours, inspiration, and history behind Gilda Gelmini Neuberger (1811-2011).
Gláucia Wanzeller, Teresa Ferreira, Milene Gil
12:30-14:00 Lunch
S2: Old and new colour materials and their origin/manufacture/uses
14:00-14:20 04. Madder lakes; Reproduction of recipes, chromatic variation and denominations.
De los Reyes, B. (1), Chércoles Asensio, R. (2), San Andrés Moya, M.
14:20-14:40 05. Sustainable glasses for art and design.
Andrea Ruivo
14:40-15:00 06. Andy Warhol and His Amazing Technicolor Shoes: Characterizing Early Synthetic Dyes used in À la recherche du shoe perdu and Dr. Ph. Martin's Radiant Concentrated Watercolors.
Abed Haddad, Toni-Nakie-Miller, Josephine Jenks, Glen Kowach, Art Kaplan
15:00-15:20 07. Complementary study of 27 paintings from MUNCH collection using MFT and pXRF techniques.
Irina Crina Anca Sandu, Tomasz Lojewski, Inger Grimstad
15:20-15:40 08. Non-destructive analysis of the early Isolani Collection at Pratt Institute.
E. Del Federico, A.Yong, A.Steinfeld, E.Liporace, A. Jerschow, N. Barbi, L. Banner, and R. Miracco
15:40-16:00 09. Dartecor - Handmade Colors.
Leonel da Costa
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Plenary Lecturer 2 - Katherine Schilling
What We Can Learn from Each Other.
17:00-18:00 Poster Session
18:30-20:30 Alentejo de honra with music (welcome reception)

Day 2 - Thursday - 15 September

09:00-09:30 Plenary Lecturer 3 - Claudia Nunes, Carolina Barata, Maria Aguiar, Roberto Carlos da Conceição Ribeiro, Rosana Elisa Coppedê Silva, Caroline Martins de Souza e Michelle Teixeira Cassiano
Children's Games - A large painting by Candido Portinari at Gustavo Capanema Palace - RJ, Brazil
S3: Colour deterioration (origin, types, mechanisms)
09:35-09:55 10. Degradation of pigments in street murals: in-situ and laboratory Raman studies.
Bersani Danilo, Laura Fornasini, Rousaki Anastasia, Vandenabeele Peter, Berzioli Michela, Saccani Ilaria
09:55-10:15 11. Acrylic colours for peace: study and conservation of an outdoor mural painting.
Nathael Cano, Ricardo Medina, María Fernanda Urbina, Valeria López
10:15-10:35 12. Colours of modernism in Edvard Munch's paintings from Warnemünde period.
Irina Sandu, Jin Ferrer, Francesca Rosi, David Buti, Letizia Monico, Donata Magrini, Claudio Costantino, Laura Cartechini, Aldo Romani, Costanza Miliani, Francesco P.Romano, Claudia Caliri, Claudia G. Fatusso, Giulia Privitera, Zdenk Preisler, Raffaella Fontana, Anna Impallaria, Emanuela Grifoni, Marco Raffaelli, Jana Striova, Christine Andraud, Aurélie Tournié
10:35-10:55 13. Study of influence of zinc white pigment in Aurélia de Sousa self-portraits.
Maria Aguiar, Carolina Barata and Ana Cabral
10:55-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-11:40 14. An Insight into the Green Deteriorated Mural Paint Layers at the Maritime Station of Alcântara (Lisbon): first results of an Archeometric Study.
Andrea Acevedo Mejía, Mafalda Costa, Peter Vandenabeele, Luis Dias , Ana Manhita, Milene Gil
11:40-12:00 15. Preliminary diagnostic Survey of 1947-1949 Paint Layers at the Maritime Station of Rocha Do Conde De Óbidos, Lisbon: A Multi Analytical Research.
Keelie S. Rix, Luis Dias, Sara Valadas, Ana Cardoso, Ana Manhita, Milene Gil
S4: Science and Technology applied to colour studies
12:00-12:20 16. Images study and material characterization of the double-sided painting The Cellist and Portrait of Brancusi by Amedeo Modigliani.
Greta García, David Juanes
12:20-12:40 17. Cobalt pigments and the spectrum of colours they create.
Elena Davanzo, Gianluca Pastorelli
12:40-13:00 18. António Carneiro's painting collection from the Museu da Cidade do Porto: Study and conservation in the 150th anniversary of the painter's birth.
Carolina Barata, Maria Aguiar, Ana Cabral
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:20 19. XIX- XX century inks: disclosing the composition and the degradation mechanism of dyes in historical collection.
Adele Ferretti, Ilaria Degano, Stefano Legnaioli, Beatrice Campanella and Maria Perla Colombini
14:20-14:40 20. Color and technique in the contemporary painting collection of the Universitat de València, Spain. The landscapes of the painter Manuel Moreno Gimeno.
Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Á. Pascual, Ester A. Pagán, Álvaro S. García, Susana H. Sala, Lucía R. Iranzo, Juan Carlos I. Garay
14:40-15:00 21. The colors of Ukrainian baroque icon painter Jov Vasilijevič and his influence to Serbian icon painting.
Daniela K. Crkvenjakov, Theodore Ganetsos, Velibor Andrić and Olivera Klisurić
15:00-15:20 22. Comparative study of two multispectral imaging systems on the Arxiu Valencià del Disseny interior design samples.
Álvaro Solbes García, Mar Gaitán Salvatella, Javier M. Fernández and Ester A. Pagán
15:20-15:40 23. Colour and technique in a 1969-Portuguese painting A portrait of 'Faiunça' by Armando Matos Simões (1933-)
Vasco Montenegro, Agnès Le Gac, Helena P. Melo, Sara Valadas, Ana M. Cardoso, António Candeias
15:40-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:20 24. Traditional and modern colours in Gino Severini's murals.
Patrizia Moretti, Stefan Zumbühl, Francesca Piqué
16:20-16:40 25. Solid state NMR depth profiling and spectroscopy of paint layers in support of the conservation of a white sculptural environment by Louise Nevelson.
Pierre Taugeron, Sullivan Bricaud, Cindie Kehlet and Jens Dittmer
16:40-17:00 26. Unveiling a World of Dreams: A Multi-Technical Analysis of The Pink Bows (1937) by Paul Delvaux
Eveline Vandeputte, Geert van der Snickt and Nina Deleu
17:00-17:20 27. Colonization of stones: Raman spectroscopy of microbial pigments, from rock outcrops to monuments.
Jan Jehlička, Adam Culka, Peter Vandenabeele, Danilo Bersani, Antonio Candeias
17:20-17:40 28. Macro-Raman mapping: a novel approach in the analysis of art objects.
Anastasia Rousak and Peter Vandenabeele
17:40-18:10 Plenary Lecturer 4 - Leslie Rainier
David Alfaro Siqueiros in Los Angeles, 1932.
18:10-19:10 Workshop on micro fading tests (MFT) - Tomasz Łojewski

Day 3 - Friday - 16 September

09:00-09:30 Plenary Lecturer 5 - Mercedes Sánchez-Pons
The conservator-restorer and the Street Art: the questions are on the table. The Valencian Old City Case.
S5: Challenges for conservation-restoration
09:30-09:50 29. A new challenge for the restoration of chromatic identity of the M'zab Valley, Algeria.
Yacine Gouaich, Antónia Fialho Conde
09:50-10:10 30. Colour in Modern Architecture of Olivetti's Town.
Enrico Giacopelli and Marco Zerbinatti
10:10-10:40 Coffee break and Poster Session
10:40-11:00 31. Street art and cultural heritage. Conceptual issues and operational choises.
Maria Vitiello
11:00-11:20 32. The color and rehabilitation of architectural surfaces as heritage value and its contribution to the image of historical cities: the case of the National Theatre of São Carlos.
Andreia Santos, João Pernão, José Aguiar
11:20-11:45 Closing session
12:00-13:30 Lunch
14:00-17:00 Guiding visit to the Maritimes Stations, Lisbon

List of posters

P1 Proposal of a methodology to evaluate the incidence of cleaning treatments on pictorial surfaces.
Livio Ferrazza, David J. Barber, Yolanda F. Sales and Mª Teresa P. Valls
P2 Cut flowers by Joaquín Sorolla, the discovery of an original and its forgery.
Greta García, David Juanes, Livio Ferrazza and Jose Madrid
P3 The luminescent rainbow.
Ana Pinheiro, César A. T. Laia, Sandra Gago and Andreia Ruivo
P4 Restoration of damaged religious painting painted on linoleum.
Rūta Kasiulytė
P5 The secret of blue smalt.
De los Reyes Félix, Patricia; De los Reyes Félix, Beatriz
P6 Analysis of misconceptions about colour and development of educational resources for teachers-in-training.
Guadalupe Martínez-Borreguero and Francisco L. Naranjo-Correa
P7 Colours of the Tijomel ceramic manufacture (1941-1992): characterization of the ceramic pigments.
Mathilda L Coutinho, Silvia Pereira, Catarina Geraldes, Milene Gil, Silvia Bottura Scardina, João Pedro Veiga and Andreia Ruivo
P8 Reveal the Original Green: An Interior Investigation on An Italian Colonial Architecture in Tianjin, China.
Chang Jingjing, Ren Meng, Yang Xiao, Zhang Wei and Lei Yong
P9 "Ce n'est pas la colle qui fait le collage": investigating the materials in two works of Max Ernst.
Stefano Legnaioli, Giulia Lorenzetti, Luca Nodari, Luciano P. Buemi and Patrizia Tomasin
P10 The depiction of the female figure in the Katsigra Museum through the perspective of the most eminent representatives of the School of Fine Arts in Athens in the first half of the 20th century.
Konstantina Romantzi, Theodore Ganetsos and Ioanna Deligianni
P11 GeoPAINT [LX] Project: GIS of contemporary mural paintings from “MURO_LX” Festival in Lisbon (Portugal).
Ana Sofia Lopes, Frederico Henriques and Ana Bailão
P12 The colours of deception: marble imitations in Alentejo.
Patricia Monteiro
P13 Revisiting colours and shapes of a "Memory fort": A Challenge for conservation-restoration.
Antunes,Vanessa, José Cruz,Carla Tomás,João Serra, Rosário Veiga, Marluci Menezes and Luisa Carvalho
P14 The Colourful Planisphere Painting of Almada Negreiros (Part1): phases of execution, technical and material details. Some observations.
Milene Gil, Yigit Helvaci, Ana Cardoso and Mafalda Costa
P15 Studies of the long-term effect of nanoconsolidants on mural paint layers with a lack of cohesion.
Penka I. Girginova, Cristina Galacho and Milene Gil
P16 Testing advanced 2 and 3D imaging techniques on Almada Negreiros murals technical and material studies.
Milene Gil, Marius Araújo, Jani Santos e Carlo Bottaini