{"id":2589,"date":"2017-03-27T16:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/domainsiderbsu.wordpress.com\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2017-03-27T16:21:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:21:58","slug":"painting-conservation-and-its-many-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/doma\/2017\/03\/27\/painting-conservation-and-its-many-layers\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting conservation and its many layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Cassi Amman<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how works of art can survive through centuries of existence? Have you ever seen a painting or sculpture in a museum that has been taken down for \u201cconservation\u201d? If you have, that means a conservator deemed the artwork unstable and in need of intervention by hand to restore it.<\/p>\n<h5>Conservation by definition:<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Conservation is the process of analyzing works of art and taking proper measures to ensure that they endure for more years to come.<\/strong> This process is careful to consider the original intent of the artist and the materials that were used when creating the artwork. In a field working with art of every age, medium, and size, it is natural that conservation has many different divisions in order to address the complexities of a given object. These categories generally fall under paintings, prints, photographs, textiles, and objects. For the purpose of this post, we will focus on <strong>paintings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conservators working in the field of painting focus their attention on studying the history of the paintings in their care. However, there is more that goes into restoring a painting than just touching up some paint.<strong> Here are some basic steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To begin, the conservator must become well acquainted with the materials and intent of the artwork. With this information, they will know how best to approach restoring the painting.<\/li>\n<li>Close examination is the next step. Conservators harness <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/collections\/conservation\/revealing-picasso-conservation-project\/examination-techniques\/visible-light\">natural light<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/collections\/conservation\/revealing-picasso-conservation-project\/examination-techniques\/ultraviolet\">ultraviolet light<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/collections\/conservation\/revealing-picasso-conservation-project\/examination-techniques\/x-radiography\">x-radiography<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/collections\/conservation\/revealing-picasso-conservation-project\/examination-techniques\/infrared\">infrared technology<\/a> in order to see the under layers of paint and canvas. Doing so, they can better see the artist\u2019s process in addition to any painting that has been added by previous restorative sessions.<\/li>\n<li>Before contemporary conservative ethics and processes were established, previous restorative additions were intrusive, unethical in relation to artist intent, and possibly damaging over the long-term life of the painting. Now, with better research in chemical and ethical aspects of paintings, conservators are better able to restore paintings for extended survival.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>As Indianapolis Museum of Art\u2019s painting conservator, Linda Witkowski states, \u201cIn art conservation, all good things take time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>&nbsp; There are many different restorations that a painting can go through:<\/h5>\n<p>Conservators look for condition issues such as peeling paint, bubbles on the surface, holes punched in the canvas, old and discolored varnish, excessive crackling, loose frame marks, and many other surface malfunctions that indicate age or structural instability. Now, conservators even look for previous restorations that go against artist intent or museum practice and intervene to bring the piece back to what is was meant to be. One of my favorite restorative processes is the removal of old, dirty varnish in favor of new, clean varnish. This allows the viewer to see the original colors and image the artist had in mind that had been blocked or discolored by old varnish.<\/p>\n<h5>Here in the David Owsley Museum of Art:<\/h5>\n<p>There is currently four-sided, painted, wooden altar panels being conserved in the West Gallery on the upper floor. If you have visited the museum recently, you have probably seen these panels are noticeably covered with rectangles of Japanese tissue paper. The work is titled, <em>Saint John the Baptist with Saint Lawrence on the reverse; Saint John the Evangelist with Saint Catherine on the reverse, <\/em>by Marten de Vos and is located near the middle of the West Gallery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2601\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/03\/02120959\/img_3191-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3191\" width=\"1938\" height=\"1938\"><\/p>\n<p>The paper you see on the paintings is a restorative measure in setting the paint chips back down to the surface of the board it was painted on. When paintings experience a sudden difference in environment, humidity, or other external factors, they can expand and shrink. This movement causes paint to bubble, crackle, or flake. In the case of the de Vos, the paint had started bubbling and flaking. Since conservation is a long process and takes much planning, it is often required to create preventative measures while set times are planned out to restore. Then, painting conservators Michael Ruzga and Linda Witkowski will return to the project and remove the paper in favor of a more long term restoration.<\/p>\n<p>The process entails using a safe, chemically stable substance to adhere the paint back to the panel. The conservators will also look at the varnish to ensure that it is even, clean and matches the other panels. Lastly, sometimes with paintings, conservators will touch up paint with expert color matching skill. However, and the materials used are reversible and can be removed in the future if necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenges to conservation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More pressure comes from societal expectations that a work must remain pristine. This causes conservators to start preserving artworks much sooner than they usually would. For example, conservators must keep in mind if it is ethical to try to maintain a work of ephemeral art that is meant to deteriorate. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ALxLQqPhTq4\">video<\/a> on contemporary art conservation at the Smithsonian\u2019s Hirshhorn Museum, conservators explained that a piece such as \u201cFishman,\u201d created in 1969 by Paul Thek, was not created to survive but for the experience of viewing it. The sculpture, created out of latex, has already started falling apart due to the firming nature of latex over time. Conservators question whether it is appropriate to attempt repairing the artwork or whether the experience of viewing it in the moment is more of the objective.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how conservators will tackle these new issues in years to come. In the meantime, please stop by DOMA to see how the altar panels evolve. Michael Ruzga and Linda Witkowski will return to work on the panels <strong>March 25-March 29, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow DOMA on Twitter and Instagram @domaatbsu.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how works of art can survive through centuries of existence? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,158,52,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-conservation","category-education","category-history","category-renovations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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