Lead White
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- For hundreds of years, Lead White (pigment colour index PW1) was the most important white pigment on the European artist’s oil paint palette. Lead can be extremely harmful to the nervous system if inhaled or ingested. For painters of the past using Lead White oil paint, lead poisoning wasn’t an inevitable occupational hazard however artists such as, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Goya and Van Gogh have all been suspected of sufferering from lead poisoning.
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I find it so interesting how over the centuries, madness has been associated with creativity and has become a cultural thing
Till this day lol, Kanye fans think this about him
@@shanel4294 Being an artist and creative doesn't cause mental health issues. I don't know much about Kanye, but it has nothing to do with being a creative person. Trauma can be a huge factor though.
@@RiverWoods111 who said it did? Lol. The person above me said madness has always been associated with creativity and I said I think Kanye fans think this of him. What does this have to do with his mental health issues? Plenty of people with Bipolar Disorder who don’t behave the way he does 🤷🏽♀️
Not anymore. Its lack of creativity which is associated with madness in 2024. If you want people to think you are normal go be a painter. If you want them to think you are crazy don´t paint.
@@Yatukih_001 where have you seen this being the case?
It's wild how wide reaching effects from lead have had in history.
I solved the problem by making sure that any drying painting is left upstairs where I live. No one sleeps there. No one sleeps on the midfloor either. Driers are used to speed dry the lead paint and there are base paints which are used to cover it. Then it binds and forms an opaque, cream like cover. The next step is make sure that walnut oil is used, not linseed oil. The base cover makes sure that 3 - D effect is produced.
We still got it in our makeup today💄 not to mention clothes
@Yatukih_001 thank you for leaving that bit of information for anyone curious on how they could actually work with the substance while minimizing, if not eliminating any and all effects. I'm sure you're more aware, but again, thank you because any good information is akin to a nugget of gold in the disinformation mine that is youtube comments.
and recently in Flint MI
Folks back then also loved lead white "foundations" to look casket ready. What a time they lived in!
As a kid who came pretty close to brain damage from lead poisoning PLEASE GET YOUR HOUSES CHECKED FOR LEAD PAINT!!!
Essentially all houses that have any paint in them that dates to an era before the 60s or 70s are GOING to have lead paint. There are easy, affordable remediations that you can safely do yourself when necessary (it's not going to jump from the walls and poison you, but paint ages, and when lead + oil paint ages too much/suffers too much environmental wear, it cracks and chips, and toddlers will eat ANYthing they find on a floor #iykyk).
(and OP this was not meant as an argument, more as a PSA - I've seen a lot of ignorant people in my region turn this subject into a kind of hysteria which ends up threatening older homes, and that's completely unnecessary)
only the curling paint chips when eaten. scrape, contain, overpaint. nothing to pick at.
My tired brain read that as 'get your horses checked for lead paint' and I wondered how horses were exposed to lead
@@JaneAustenAteMyCat funnily enough, that too XD
I worked on an old farm for a while and the birds and sheep getting sick was our first indicator that something on the farm was poisoning the animals. Basically the outdoor paint on many of the animal shelter buildings is old lead paint and when it rains, the paint flakes off into puddles that the animals drink from. Luckily it takes a LOT more lead to kill a horse, but we lose 2 geese to it and almost lost 2 lambs but the vet caught it in time.
Thank you for using captions and changing their color when needed.
This!! ❤
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I got to see lead white in my mother's oil paints in the early 1980s, and it was well known to be toxic but still used. I haven't seen it since. My whites are zinc, titanium and Chinese (transparent).
I had a lead white paint in the early 1990s. A little bit used as a hobby is fine. It's dangerous when you use it a lot
Lead white is still used in realistic portrait underpainting
You can still buy it. Old Holland makes it.
@theboujieproletariat actually there's no safe level of exposure. A little can be very toxic and causes brain damage. The key is safe and meticulous use if you're an artist who needs to use it.
Id be leary about some Chinese paints. One firm had lead in their paint for childrens toys.
The word “plumbing” comes from the Latin word for Lead. It’s also why Lead’s elemental symbol is “Pb”.
Well that's an interesting fun fact! Thanks for sharing. (Re: Lead, plumbing, Pb)
Heavy metal poisoning has been a risk taken by artists in many mediums.
Early photographers dealt with silver poisoning.
That is also where mad as a hatter comes from. To make felt hats they used lead. It wasn't just something made up for Alice in Wonderland.
In those cases, it was mercury poisoning, not lead.
@@etheljay That's right! My mistake!
As corrected it was mercury for hatters. A heavy metal poisoning still.
Mercury was also thought to be the cause for madness of the lighthouse keepers, since old heavy lenses had to rotate smoothly so they would sit in these big pools of mercury.
Cleaning the lens would put the keeper into contact with mercury and the would breathe in evaporated fumes.
@Sandwhaler before we realized the danger, we used to play with mercury from broken thermometers. Sigh. It is attracted to gold, changing the appearance of my class ring's yellow gold to white gold. That happened in the early 1960s.
Yes mercury for hatters … Luton was well known for the hat trade
Shoutout to titanium white! Can’t do a single painting without it.
Titanium White FTW 👩🏽🎨🤍
Try not using white next time you paint.. or black... you can do it.
My friends brother was stripping white paint off a very old barn, he started exhibiting extremely erratic behaviour & ended up nearly killing himself by jumping through thick plate glass window of a building lobby, severing his arm almost clean off. Turned out he had extreme lead poisoning from the paint removal process & the injury helped save his life. Be careful out there, lead is still around, in places you’d never think of.
Yeah, old buildings do contain lead paint, best to test first.
Wow. Did he lose the arm? What decade was this?
Don’t forget van Gogh and his brother suffered from veneral disease which would not only be depressing but fatal at the time.
Treatments included using mercury could only make things worse.
Yes! Topical mercury treatments were widespread for the symptoms of syphilis. I forgot that. It could drive man to cut off his own ear. (I guess)
@@One.DeSanctis.syphilis rots a person from the inside out, wasn't uncommon for people to have jaws rot n fall off with fingers n toes. Along with the brain damage it's a likely contributor to zombie mythology
Also a family history of mental illness going back further and all
Vincent also probably had Meniere's disease, which would explain him cutting off his ear.
Van Gogh also suffered from severe dental problems. He had 10 teeth pulled out at once. He probably suffered from sepsis because of this. This was just one of his many medical issues, including syphilis. That would make anyone depressed with all those medical issues not to mention his improper diet and alcoholism.
You look like a talking 18th century painting, absolutely beautiful ❤
An 18th century painting with a nose ring 😅
@@Drew_McTygue Still beautiful though.
@@Drew_McTyguehumans have been piercing themselves since there were humans.
Yes, I was thinking how beautiful she is in both appearance and voice. And fascinating, too!
Yes she really has a beautiful face like a doll -- a doll face .💜
Michael Spafford, a U.Wash. painting PhD who did a commission of the 12 Labors of Hercules" for the state capitol's rotunda, died of complications from his use of lead white. He died in 2022! He used to go down to Mexico every summer break to bring it back, bacause he thought it to be the truest white.
I heard of a recent case of a young girl ( under10 yo) dying from lead poisoning. They found out too late what was her strange illness. She was wearing all the time a necklace with a pendant containing lead that she often puts in her mouth. Caution with cheap jewelry: never allow children to put them in their mouth.
Don't forget that lead paint was also used for children's toys. Very charming
I've seen some comparisons and honestly the lead whites were so much more luminous, I can see why people chose them fully knowing how toxic they were.
They are, nothing comes close. ❤
Which is why some of us still use it, although carefully
Lead was used in NASCAR fuel and exaust until a couple of years ago. And is still used in private planes
You're right.
There are aviation piston engines that work fine with lead free fuels, but "low lead" is the standard aviation gasoline around the world and it's the only fuel approved for use with the most common engines (Lycoming/Continental and similarly) in small propeller driven airplanes.
Some small propeller airplanes have shifted over to using diesel engines or lightweight Rotax gas engines, neither of which need fuel with lead.
It was used in fuel by everyone for ages, and yet we are confused as to why (most) boomers are batshit crazy
Leaded petrol was used in ordinary cars until unleaded fuel was invented. We were using it in New Zealand until 1996.
And yet we act surprised boomers are brain damaged
ok but can we just appreciate that eye makeup for a sec? that👏🏽 look👏🏽 fuckin👏🏽 slaps👏🏽
Rubens had it bad too, but he had more problems with neuralgia, terrible pains everywhere in his body especially in his hands and legs. He thought it was gout, but they found heaps of lead and mercury in his bones from the paint.
The Romans used it for their drinking water tubes, and they knew it was harmful. But there just was no good alternative.
It was also used to draft beer in pubs. And it was mostly the pub owner who drank the first beer the next morning, while it was in the lead pipe the whole night.
Decades ago I remember reading an excerpt from ancient Greek or Roman history where a bunch of people died from lead poisoning from the water and pipes .
Wow , the description was horrible and they basically died of thirst but had other painful and ungodly side effects 😢😢😢
Artists had a pretty special risk even for the time, especially when half the other paints in their pallet were probably also toxic.
Like the radium girls licking the tips of their brushes for sharper lines in between strokes. Face over the fumes for hours, days, weeks, while finishing a project. Prolonged skin contact.
Even today with all of our knowledge and regulations, painters and artists have up to a 30% higher risk of certain types of cancer than the general population. Wear gloves, masks, and don’t eat the paint!
Yes, I remember a horrible short video about factory women who worked in a watch factory. Their job was to paint .... uranium (I think it was?) on the face of the watches, so that the time could be seen at night by this glow in the dark chemical that was applied to the watches. These poor women were encouraged to moisten their brushes on their tongues. They had been lied to about the effects of this chemical. Many of these poor women lost their tongues, jaws, lives. It really must have been a horrible way to die.
@@robinlindberg6339Yep , i remember that and it was truly the STUFF of NIGHTMARES .
... those POOR women , OH MY GOD .
Really haunting and i don't want to ever watch that or anything like it ever again .😢
I am almost 69 years old. I have a small amount of understanding about paints, etc. and really never found them a subject of much interest. Until your videos. You are wonderful and are an exemplar of how one can make a subject fascinating.
i hope the speaker is reading these comments because i just have to say you're beautiful! the subtle makeup is really pretty and your hair is amazing.
As a painter I personally prefer lead to titanium white. While I have titanium on my palette for highlights, it doesn’t have the same effect as lead white, which has less tinting power (allowing for more subtle mixing) and is generally warmer and quicker drying (by a little bit). I paint using an indirect method so when I apply the lead white layer, I’m careful not to eat anything around it and wash my hands THROUGHLY.
Good to know. I've only ever used Titanium white so I didn't know how lead paint mixed in comparison. Have you ever used Zinc white, and if so, what's that like?
One of the food-adjacent applications of lead is in making glass crystal. It's okay to make beautiful decorative glass vessels out of lead, but don't eat or drink anything that has been left in them for a long time
Lots of colors used lead, mercury, arsenic, etc. So its basically just heavy metal poisoning.
Yep, as long as one is careful then it’s fine.
Fun fact, the word "plumbing" comes from the Latin word for lead. Same reason lead is Pb on the periodic table.
Pronouncing van Gogh with actual respect ❤
You could be a main character in so many things with your look and your voice. Especially with the way you're dressed, the hair, and your topic of interest.
Studied fine art and drawing in uni. Theory and practise. Swear that somepeople were using it still. The amount of unhinged behaviour from students and faculty...it was rough 😅
I studied at Pratt and I 100% agree with you. 😂
I paint with lead white almost daily. I wear gloves, and I don't eat my paint, pretty basic studio etiquette.
I always suspected the behavior was an excuse for a lack of manners & bad art. They're trying too hard to be "artistic," instead of disciplining themselves to be so.
I may be misreading your post, but there’s nothing unhinged about using lead white.
But let's face it that's the way a lot of artists are anyway especially when you get a bunch of them together hahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Things can get pretty wild and hilarious
I have an old book that has a recipe for white wash for the kitchen with lead as the first ingredient
If you use walnut oil and lead white that should be fine as long as you keep the painting elsewhere and sleep elsewhere while it is drying. Also make sure there is an open window somewhere for the paint to dry quickly and then you are ok. Thanks for your video!! Best wishes to you from Iceland!!
Honestly, you have to wonder how they originally figured out that lead coils in vinegar hung over horse dung would produce white paint.
This was my thought as she kept speaking. It was so distracting I had to go back and listen to the vid again lol
this might be the best thing that randomly popped into my YT shorts in months. subscribed!
Your eye makeup dots are fabulous ❤
I have never seen those before. What are they for? I’m not being critical. I’m just asking.
@@GS-cg3ynthey’re just pretty decoration
Excellent opacity, brightness, durability, great for priming and standing the test of time itself, what’s not to like?! Artists already knew the dangers of Lead pigment use but there simply has never been an alternative with as good properties.
Nothing replaces lead white for me in my paintings. It more opaque imo.
I find titanium white to be opaque enough, personally, and I paint with oil (wet on wet, all in one go usually). If you're using acrylic, titanium white makes even more sense because you can do another layer if you need to after the 1st one dries. 1 decent layer of titanium white will cover black.
To be fair I can't bring myself to give up my cadmium red and yellow :P Make sure you're not ingesting any of that lead white of course.
I agree. It also mixes differently with colors than titanium or zinc white. I keep all three around.
@@marzipanmango I love cadmium yellow in water colors ;-;
I used to work in an art school that taught traditional paint-making, let's just say we had a few characters amongst the tutors.... Once we found mercury someone had left in the COSHH cupboard 😅
didn't see a comment for this yet.
regarding food and drink, lead was sometimes used as a sweetener.
Apart from introguing video, I can't leave without saying how beautiful the speaker is. I have a really hard time putting it into words, but the esthetics of her face and eyes is as of an art form
Yes, I agree, however the nose ring is somewhat incongruous with the image she is trying to portray.
The dots under her eyes are unsettling and ugly. Shame because she has such a natural beauty.
@@MsAbyss123 I thought the camera was just blurry there until you mentioned it xd
@@MsAbyss123 girl what
Yes I totally agree and if you scroll through the comments you'll see we are not the only ones who think she's really very lovely to look at
They used lead in house paints until relatively recently. My uncle got cancer in his oesophagus from it. He had most of his oesophagus removed decades ago.
I love the eloquence of the explanation ❤
Jackson’s this woman is fabulous
Really interesting. Our mains water in this, Thames Water, area comes through lead pipes.
Lead pipes don't produce dangerous levels in water. As long as the water is flowing, it will not leech fast enough to harm you. Whether there are cumulative effects is another question, but my guess is you get much more lead from other sources in the world.
They usually add some "hardness" to the water to coat the pipes with other minerals as well, or at least that's what they do in my municipality to help with the lead pipes!
Lead can leach into water if heat is applied. So hot water in lead pipes is a big no no. Lead pipes have also been used since antiquity as they are present in the remains of Herculaneum.
I have a house built in 1910. I have a professional house painters booklet from the 1920’s , the Dutch boy logo is the same as was shown in this video.
The booklet has recipes for mixing different colors of paint. Your painter mixed the needed paint , it wasn’t sold premixed.
Depending on the color you wanted to achieve, you mixed ponds of red or white lead in linseed oil with pigment.
Once for fun, I calculated the number of pounds of lead on just my house. I based it on number of coats of paint times the number of gallons I used to repaint it and the old recipe.
The amount was staggering. Then , I looked out at all the other houses around of similar age and it was horrifying.
Lead can affect you through your skin, ingesting it, as inhaled dust or vapor if over heated.
I personally find it much scarier that asbestos.
However, by using common sense, care and proper techniques and equipment you can work with it and make it safe.
Know what you’re dealing with and do it right. Also, massive amounts of vitamin C can help strip lead from your body although I think they have revised the “ safe” amount down.
Thanks for the info.
Also Triphala I would say maybe a teaspoon and a large glass of warm water at bedtime preferably on an empty stomach helps remove any and all impurities from the body and you will notice over time your skin gets nicer and if you have any belly fat it starts to vanish
I very much appreciate these videos, thank y'all for the hard work 🖤😻
Beethoven was also exposed to quite a bit of lead in recent findings, speculated reason as to why he had so many health problems. He even went so far as to have his hair clippings saved after his death for future generations to possibly solve and remedy the problems he experienced. Beethoven rocked!
The basement in my home had led windows, but when we remodeled, we had them replaced. Thank goodness, we could find the same style still!
I still occasionally use Flake White which has a lead base. There is a warning label on the tube. Titanium oxide is a safer option.
But not the same.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Lead white was used to make a gesso for raised letters for Gold leaf on art embellishments in calligraphy. I still remember the ingredients. Shame I couldn't find them. However, I did find something that had to be heated with a double boiler and mask.
You forgot to mention leaded gasoline. Veritasium has an amazing video on it and the horrible consequences.
Brains and an absolute doll! 😊
I love her style and type of beauty! So radiant, round and soft! There's something renaissance-like to her.
My GenX brain and body resents all the lead that was forced upon me by industries. My cognitive issues bring me down.... great info. Ty for the video.
Completely out of context but I'm remembering Law's backstory cuz his entire country had a special ore that dyed their plants and soil white. That ore erodes the body from the inside out, growing white patches on the skin, and it slowly decreased the life expectancy rate as time went on. T'was tragic :(
Every time I hear a "recipe" like THAT I think who? Who was the first person to DO that and for God's sake why? You don't just accidently stack lead coils, over vinegar and suspend it over horse poop, and wait... Oh look, pretty paint.
I’m amazed that humanity has survived as long as it has. We’re constantly trying to kill ourselves, whether intentionally or bc of our ignorance.
Titanium white is my go-to white, along with a mixing white that contains no lead. Short of fancy expensive paints there's no avoiding cadmium though.
I love coming across these vids, so refreshing
I've also read that the reason why old painting changes color is because of the lead chemical reaction over time
I heard Van Gogh had syphilis which was the lead to his crazy . And sadly it was not curable until after his death as well as the other artists named her .
Is this why old artists were so eccentric? This is just a generalization of course
I’ve heard all artist are.
This is also where the saying "lead stare" comes from. Its a distant stare as if the person isnt connected with the present.
Why would it have been chosen for paint initially?
Side effects were unknown, itwas cheap, maybe gave a good quality white and lack of alternativess
It’s very opaque and has a warm tone, and it mixes really well with other colors. It’s also durable as far as oil paints go
Truthfully, substitutes just don’t work as well. But the same can be said for most of those super dangerous paints they used to use haha
Interesting! Thank you! 🕊
thanks so much for making awesome content!
I love these videos. You always look as if a renaissance painting was speaking to us...
Yes that was my very first thought when I watched this
Plumbing even gets its name from the Latin word for lead, just like the atomic symbol Pb.
The oceans, then
“Less” toxic does not fill me with hope.
Thank you, this is very informative.
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But also even with something like instant coffee, I just found out it develops a film layer around your soft pastel. When I could easily avoid that using used coffee grounds.
While it doesnt rise to the level of lead paint, its something food manufacturers should disclose.
A lot of foods these days are making me violently ill for days
Wow, and all this time they blamed Van Gogh's erratic brhavior and mood swings on alcoholism.
and bipolar, and, and
Got me thinking of Mad Hatters now
This is apropos of nothing but you have a perfect voice for this kind of narration
OK but why does she have dots under her eyes? I can't concentrate 😮
Makeup... she probably just likes the look of it...
I’ve never heard of this before, and I took three art history classes in college! Thanks for the info, this is fascinating!
Are those moles under her eyes or makeup? It's beautiful!
They should've stuck with cocaine and psychedelic mushrooms😂😂😂😂
Can you please produce an audiobook where you are talking about colors? Ich could listen to this forever❤😊
Beautiful video . Thank you!❤ Very interesting and so well explained. High standard of professionalism overall.
Along with Vermillion, Lead White, Arsenical Green, Uranium Yellow and true Prussian Blue.
The population that lived during the leaded gas period have lost an average of 5 to 10 IQ points. This means the worldwide population.We are collectively dumber because of it.😒😒😒😳
This may be off topic but she has one of the most CALMING VOICES I've ever heard!!!
Girlie you can/should narrate books! ❤
I have insomnia & in just this one video you've almost cured it 😅
Okay but seriously I mean it in the best way, your voice is so soothing 😍
Anyone know which accent this is? English but any more specific? London maybe? 🤔 Some audio books have different voices to choose from and I usually avoid British accents because most annoy me but this accent in video was marvelous! So if anyone knows the specific accent plmk ❤
You look as if you came straight from a beautiful forest. ☺️🌳🌲🌿☘️ Aaaah!! You lo😍k stunning in those clothes. Uff, I really wish I had this shirt… wait no, have you as a neighbour to talk about art and see you in person like that. :3 🌾🌸
Off-topic: GOSH i LOVE your head cloth! Its so elegant and pretty!
As a fellow head cloth wearer, i am desperately looking for vendors, so it anyone knows of an online shop with similar ones I BEG YOU please tell me the name!
To B fair, though....was that they ONLY way painters knew at the time to MAKE white paint or the color WHITE, in general?
Lead in US gasoline was removed in 1975 and the violent crime rate dropped by approx. 56% from 1992 - 2002 just as unpoisoned babies were reaching maturity.
Beethoven suffered from lead poisoning, too. Mostly because lead was also used in wine making.
Now, zinc and titanium is used in both paint and food, like ranch salad dressing. Ugh!!! Not any better.
Were ninjas used during ww2? Obviously spying was used by everyone involved in the war but did Japan's specifically hire or use Ninjas?
Lead in paint. Unfortunately, the lead in the gas ⛽️ 😕 effect from the 20th century has been devastating.
We used white lead paint on ships when I was in the Navy (1965-1968). Also, we used red lead paint.
What about lead fillings in teeth!? Is this the same!? I have several and have been having unexplained vision problems and migraines. Does anyone know 😭
There's also that green house paint that was fashionable in the Georgian era, that had some pretty bad toxic effect - can't recall the name if it.
On a side note, I absolutely LOVE your smock! Can you PLEASE tell me where you got it?
Lead is stored in the body where calcium should be, that's why it's so very dangerous for young children. In houses it was used in paint, pipes, and occasionally as a drying agent in varnish (so those "natural" wood finishes may not be safe). In older houses, double hung windows are one of the major exposure points, as lead dust is invisible (that's why you need a HEPA filter) and no one ever dismantles double hung windows, they just paint the outer parts, leaving the lead on the parts that are rubbing together exposed.
Very cool! Informative, concise and well produced!
It's also responsible for mad hatters. My town was the inspiration for the mad hatters. Because they would be driven mad from the lead and arsenic and other chemicals. They'd walk into a swamp area, not deep enough to drown. It's between 1 to 3ft of swampy wate, and they'd just die. They'd just stop living. It's been fenced in at the back of the cemetery and it has never been dealt with they just built around it. Because there's so many bodies. Now it's an area kids hamg out 🤦♀️🤷♀️🤣
I was also thinking about chromium 6, used by different kind of painters and deadly.
Then again, maybe they were just mentally on the edge in the first place, which is why they produced such unique and popular works. Not every crazy person is an artist. But i have known quite a few that have had, lets say, a unique take on life.