Using artists of your choice discuss the ways in which an artist (or artists) have privileged colour as an means of artistic expression.

Throughout the 19th and 20th century many artists have been trying to create an art of pure colour. Eugene Delacroix was one of the first painters practicing the use of pure colour and inspired many other artists such as Cezanne, Monet and Matisse and Rothko to carry out this quest for an art of pure colour. Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1862): "The work of a painter who is not a colourist is illumination rather than painting. If …

…Norbert Wolf, Taschen ·<Tab/>Matisse, Gilles Neret, Taschen ·<Tab/>Matisse - The Sensuality of Colour, Xavier Girald, Thames and Hudson, 1993 ·<Tab/>Monet, Carla Rachman, Phaidon, 1997 ·<Tab/>Mark Rothko 1903-1970, Tate Gallery Publishing ·<Tab/>Mark Rothko, Diane Waldman, Thames and Hudson