Conservation of Modern Oil Paintings
Berg, Klaas Jan van den / Bonaduce, Ilaria / Burnstock, Aviva / Keune, Katrien / Scharff, Mikkel / Carlyle, Leslie / Heydenreich, Gunnar / Ormsby, Bronwyn Artists' oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of issues that pose increasing difficulties to conservators and collection keepers. A deeper knowledge of the artists' intent as well as processes associated with material changes in paintings is important to conservation, which is almost always a compromise between material preservation and ae...