Ochre pigments—yellow, red, brown, even purple—and their use are often cited as the earliest form of human art and symbolism, but there’s more to it: ochre shows how our brains were developing, and that we were using our environment through early chemistry to create paints. It is the bridge between science and art. We will learn the science of ochre pigments and look at our earliest history as artists, including in the Tucson basin, with archaeologist Henry Wallace, and then we will learn to hunt and then create our own ochre paint from local soil with Roseann Hanson.
Length: 2 hours
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