Conservation and restoration of paintings

Paintings conservation laboratory, Heritage Conservation Centre, Singapore

The conservation and restoration of paintings is carried out by professional painting conservators. Paintings cover a wide range of various mediums, materials, and their supports (i.e. the painted surface made from fabric, paper, wood panel, fabricated board, or other). Painting types include fine art to decorative and functional objects spanning from acrylics, frescoes, and oil paint on various surfaces, egg tempera on panels and canvas, lacquer painting, water color and more. Knowing the materials of any given painting and its support allows for the proper restoration and conservation practices. All components of a painting will react to its environment differently, and impact the artwork as a whole.[1] These material components along with collections care (also known as preventive conservation) will determine the longevity of a painting.[2] The first steps to conservation and restoration is preventive conservation followed by active restoration with the artist's intent in mind.

  1. ^ Government of Canada; Canadian Heritage; Canadian Conservation Institute. "Know Your Paintings – Structure, Materials and Aspects of Deterioration – Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) Notes 10/17". canada.pch.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  2. ^ Bockrath, Mark F. (2000). The Winterthur Guide to Caring for Your Collection. The Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. ISBN 978-0-912724-52-2.

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