Problems in the contemporary oil paintings preservation
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2021-12-27
María Sancho Zorraquino
Abstract
The new materials and techniques used by artists in the production of contemporary works of art will condition their conservatio. These materials, mostly of synthetic origin, will show a certain instability, and in most cases, the combination of materials of different natures in the same art work will produce incompatibilities between them. Specifically, this article deals with contemporary oil paints and their most common alterations, since the changes that will occur in the manufacture of commercial oil paints will be the main cause of their deterioration, causing alterations that had not previously occurred in traditional oil paints. It is therefore necessary to carry out an exhaustive study of this type of paint, in terms of its composition and its behaviour, in order to find out the origin of these alterations, which will pose new challenges for conservators-restorers.
How to Cite
Sancho Zorraquino, María. 2021. “Problems in the Contemporary Oil Paintings Preservation”. AusArt 9 (2). https://doi.org/10.1387/ausart.23067.
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Keywords
CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF ARTWORKS, CONTEMPORARY ART CONSERVATION, OIL PAINT, ALTERATIONS
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Sawicka, Alysia et al. 2014. “An investigation into the viability of removal lead soap efflorescence from contemporary oil paintings”. In Issues in contemporary oil paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 311-31. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Schilling, Michel R., Joy Mazurek & Thomas J. S. Learner. 2007. “Studies of modern oil-based artists' paint media by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry”. In Modern paints uncovered: Proceedings from the Modern Paints Uncovered Symposium, 129-39. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute
Silvester, Genevieve, Aviva Burnstock, Luc Megens, Giacomo Chiari, Klaas Jan van den Berg & Tom Learner. 2014. “A cause of water-sensitivity in modern oil paint films: The formation of magnesium sulphate”. Studies in Conservation 59(1): 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1179/2047058413Y.0000000085
Van den Berg, Klaas Jan & Aviva Burnstock. 2014. “Twentieth Century oil paint: The interface between science and conservation and the challenges for modern oil paint research”. In Issues in contemporary oil paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 1-19. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Vanrell Vellosillo, Arianne. 2015. “Estrategias para la conservación de instalaciones de arte y obras complejas”. En Arte contemporáneo en (sala de) guardia, Américo Castilla, comp., 199-216. Buenos Aires: Teseo
Villarquide Jevenois, Ana. 2005. La pintura sobre tela II: Alteraciones, materiales y tratamientos de restauración. San Sebastián: Nerea
Zumbühl, Stefan, Nadim C. Scherrer & Wolfgang Müller. 2014. “Derivatisation technique for infrared spectroscopy–characterisation of oxidative ageing products in modern oil paint”. In Issues in contemporary oil paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 213-25. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Bonaduce, Ilaria et al. 2019. “Conservation issues of modern oil paintings: A molecular model on paint curing”. Accounts of Chemical Research 52: 3397-3406. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00296
Burnstock, Aviva, Klaas Jan van den Berg, Suzan de Groot & Louise Wijnberg. 2007. “An investigation of water-sensitive oil paints in Twentieth-Century paintings”. In Modern paints uncovered: Proceedings from the Modern Paints Uncovered Symposium, 177-88. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute
Cooper, Anna, Aviva Burnstock, Klaas Jan van den Berg & Bronwyn Ormsby. 2014. “Water sensitive oil paint in the Twentieth Century: A study of the distribution of water-soluble degradation products in modern oil paint films”. In Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 295-310. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
De Groot, Jazzy, Lise Steyn, Maartje Stols-Witlox & Klaas Jan van den Berg. 2019. “Decision-making processes regarding the treatment of modern oil paintings (1950s-Present): Exhibiting paint dripping and oil exudates”. In Conservation of modern oil paintings, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 373-81. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Erhardt, David, Charles S. Tumosa & Marion F. Mecklenburg. 2005. “Long-term chemical and physical processes in oil paint flims”. Studies in Conservation 50(2): 43-150. https://doi.org/10.2307/25487732
Erhart, David, Charles S. Tumosa & Marion F. Mecklenburg. 2000. “Natural and accelerated thermal aging of oil paint films”. Studies in Conservation 45(supl1): 65-9. https://doi.org/10.1179/sic.2000.45.Supplement-1.65
Franken, Verena, Gunnar Heydenreich, Elisabeth Jägers, Wolfang Müller, Jenny Schulz & Stefan Zumbühl. 2014. “Set back the race: Treatment strategies for running oil paint”. In Issues in contemporary oil paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 333-49. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Fuster-López, Laura, Francesca Caterina Izzo, Valentina Damato, Dolores Yusà-Marco & Elisabetta Zendri. 2019. “An insight into the mechanical properties of selected commercial oil and alkyd paint films containing cobalt blue”. Journal of Cultural Heritage 35: 225-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2018.12.007
Fuster-López, Laura, Marco Piovesan, Dolores Yusá-Marco, Laura Spemi, Elisabetta Zendri & Francesca Caterina Izzo. 2016. “Study of the mechanical composition and chemical behaviour of 20th Century commercial artists' oil paints containing manganese-based pigments”. Microchemical Journal 124: 962-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2015.08.023
Gillman, Miriam, Judith Lee, Bronwyn Ormsby & Aviva Burnstock. 2019. “Water-sensitivity in modern oil paintings: trends in phenomena and treatment options”. In Conservation of modern oil paintings, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 477-94. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Hagan, Eric, Maria Charalambides, Thomas J. S. Learner, Alison Murray & Christina Young. 2007. “Factors affecting the mechanical properties of modern paints”. In Modern paints uncovered: Proceedings from the Modern Paints Uncovered Symposium, 227-35. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute
Helwig, Kate, Jennifer Poulin, Marie-Claude Corbeil, Elizabeth Moffatt & Dominique Duguay. 2014. “Conservation issues in several Twentieth-Century Canadian oil paintings: The role of zinc carboxylate reaction products”. In Issues in contemporary oil paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 167-84. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Izzo, Francesca Caterina, Klaas Jan van den Berg, Henk van Keulen, Barbara Ferriani & Elisabetta Zendri. 2014. “Modern oil paints – formulations, organic additives and degradation: Some case studies”. In Issues in contemporary oil paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 75-104. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Learner, Thomas J. S. 2004. Analysis of modern paints. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute
Lee, Judith , Ilaria Bonaduce, Francesca Modugno, Jacopo La Nasa, Bronwyn Ormsby & Klaas Jan van den Berg. 2018. “Scientific investigation into the water sensitivity of Twentieth Century oil paints”. Microchemical Journal 138: 282-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2018.01.017
Mecklenburg, Marion F., Charles S. Tumosa & David Erhardt. 2005. “The changing mechanical properties of aging oil paints”. In Materials Research Society Symposium, edited by Pamela B. Vandiver, J.L. Mass & A. Murray, 13-24. Warrendale PA: Materials Research Society
Mecklenburg, Marion F., Laura Fuster-López & Silvia Ottolini. 2012. “A look at the structural requirements of consolidation adhesives for easel paintings”. In Adhesives and consolidants in painting conservation, editors, Angelina Barros D'Sa, Lizzie Bone, Rhiannon Clarricoates & Alexandra Gent, 7-23. London: Archetype
Moreira Texeira, Joana Cristina. 2008. “La teoría en la práctica de la conservación/restauración del arte contemporáneo”. En Conservación de arte contemporáneo: 9ª Jornada, 209-17. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Pastor Valls, María Teresa & María del Carmen Pérez García. 2006. “Alterations in unvarnished contemporary paint in Spain: A visual approach”. In Modern paints uncovered: Proceedings from the Modern Paints Uncovered Symposium, 292-4. Los Ángeles: The Getty Conservation Institute
Ruiz de Arcaute Martínez, Emilio. 2001. “Aproximación al estudio de las obras de arte contemporáneo”. PH 35: 112-21. https://doi.org/10.33349/2001.35.1186
Sawicka, Alysia et al. 2014. “An investigation into the viability of removal lead soap efflorescence from contemporary oil paintings”. In Issues in contemporary oil paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 311-31. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Schilling, Michel R., Joy Mazurek & Thomas J. S. Learner. 2007. “Studies of modern oil-based artists' paint media by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry”. In Modern paints uncovered: Proceedings from the Modern Paints Uncovered Symposium, 129-39. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute
Silvester, Genevieve, Aviva Burnstock, Luc Megens, Giacomo Chiari, Klaas Jan van den Berg & Tom Learner. 2014. “A cause of water-sensitivity in modern oil paint films: The formation of magnesium sulphate”. Studies in Conservation 59(1): 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1179/2047058413Y.0000000085
Van den Berg, Klaas Jan & Aviva Burnstock. 2014. “Twentieth Century oil paint: The interface between science and conservation and the challenges for modern oil paint research”. In Issues in contemporary oil paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 1-19. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Vanrell Vellosillo, Arianne. 2015. “Estrategias para la conservación de instalaciones de arte y obras complejas”. En Arte contemporáneo en (sala de) guardia, Américo Castilla, comp., 199-216. Buenos Aires: Teseo
Villarquide Jevenois, Ana. 2005. La pintura sobre tela II: Alteraciones, materiales y tratamientos de restauración. San Sebastián: Nerea
Zumbühl, Stefan, Nadim C. Scherrer & Wolfgang Müller. 2014. “Derivatisation technique for infrared spectroscopy–characterisation of oxidative ageing products in modern oil paint”. In Issues in contemporary oil paint, Klaas Jan van den Berg et al., 213-25. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
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