01-06-2026, 09:26 PM
"Hating the painter" is not a solution...
Though some people may wish that all colour-work was sloppy, false and irritating because it spoils their theories, I did not see any robust proof for the all-colours-came-much-later-by-some-childish-person-idea.
Other manuscripts of VMS era also sometimes show such kind of non-perfect colouring -- yes, there are many books with better artwork, but also some at VMS's level and a few surely even worse.
Colouring seems to fit to the rest of VMS quite well.
About the discussions like "too much blue flowers" etc.: J. Barabe said in the last Zoom that a formerly white colour changed with the time into yellow, due to chemical reasons (something about protein or such), so a lot of "yellow" could have been white initially.
He did not mention any changes in the 'blue' chemistry, but there seem to have been some conventions about using blue colour when something like violet is meant, in earlier times.
And finally, the artist (and the author) maybe just liked the blue colour most -- it is considered as a highest valuable colour within several cultures...
Though some people may wish that all colour-work was sloppy, false and irritating because it spoils their theories, I did not see any robust proof for the all-colours-came-much-later-by-some-childish-person-idea.
Other manuscripts of VMS era also sometimes show such kind of non-perfect colouring -- yes, there are many books with better artwork, but also some at VMS's level and a few surely even worse.
Colouring seems to fit to the rest of VMS quite well.
About the discussions like "too much blue flowers" etc.: J. Barabe said in the last Zoom that a formerly white colour changed with the time into yellow, due to chemical reasons (something about protein or such), so a lot of "yellow" could have been white initially.
He did not mention any changes in the 'blue' chemistry, but there seem to have been some conventions about using blue colour when something like violet is meant, in earlier times.
And finally, the artist (and the author) maybe just liked the blue colour most -- it is considered as a highest valuable colour within several cultures...