The effect of new LED lighting systems on the colour of modern paints

Abstract This research focuses on the investigation of the effect of a new light emitting diode (LED)-lighting system which reproduces indoor museum conditions, on some self-made art paint colours (acrylic-, alkyd-, and linseed oil-based paints) often used in modern-contemporary art. A halogen lamp...

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Main Authors: Valentina Pintus, Ferenc Szabó, Renáta Gazdag-Kéri, Dávid Noel Tóth, Róbert Nagy, Péter Csuti, Katja Sterflinger, Manfred Schreiner
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/2db4aa0401fe46f58313e03dd2b1d1f0
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Summary:Abstract This research focuses on the investigation of the effect of a new light emitting diode (LED)-lighting system which reproduces indoor museum conditions, on some self-made art paint colours (acrylic-, alkyd-, and linseed oil-based paints) often used in modern-contemporary art. A halogen lamp representing a traditional light source for museum lighting was also considered. Lighting-set-up and lighting optimization parameters were considered while Ultraviolet/Visible/Near Infrared (UV/Vis/NIR) spectrophotometry was used for investigating the colour change of the paint samples. Univariate analyses allowed determining the highest effect of the lighting systems on the linseed oil binder and ultramarine blue PB29 mixture upon ageing, according to the highest total colour change ΔE* ab. In a more specific and detailed way, variance analyses not only demonstrated the strong correlation between the type of binder and pigment used for the paint samples with the colour variation, but also showed that the short-wavelength blue LEDs influenced the change along the yellow–blue b* axis of the yellow and blue samples, whereas the halogen lamp mostly had an impact towards the red–green a* axis of mostly the green specimens.