Word: colorfast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to being radically innovative with subject matter, was also extremely experimental with media, haphazardly using a variety of unstable compounds such as egg whites and cheap Woolworth's paint. For the Harvard murals, Rothko mixed ultramarine, a stable blue pigment, with lithol red, a highly non-colorfast red hue, to yield the then crimson background. The murals' appearance today is the result of fading due to ultraviolet radiation that shone through the bay window of the penthouse. Furthermore, after the installation, the penthouse was turned into a well-frequented University dining facility. So, added to the damaging sunlight...