Word: enamels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cemented on. Capping even one tooth can take three or four sittings. In bonding, there is no drilling, no anesthetic is used, and several teeth can be bonded during a single visit to the dentist. Diluted phosphoric acid is applied to the natural tooth, etching microscopic pores into the enamel. Next comes a coat of liquid plastic to seal the tooth. Then a paste composed of plastic and finely ground quartz, glass or silica is patted on in thin layers tinted to match the natural teeth and molded into the desired shape. After each layer is applied, it is exposed...
...There are many nuances in the market. Russian enamel is soft because a major American buyer is out of the market. Nineteenth century Dutch painting is off because of the prospects of a Socialist-dominated government in Holland, which has depressed demand from Dutch citizens...
...painting to a more demanding kind of diction ?exemplary and grand, like the art of the museums. All manner of stylistic sources fed into their project: the abstracted allegories of Puvis de Chavannes, for instance, gave some cues to Gauguin, as did the formal outlining of Japanese cloisonne enamel: that bluish bounding line was the diametric opposite of impressionist blur and pulsation. The swirling abstract patterns it the background of Paul Signac's portrait of Critic Félix Fénéon?with its long portmanteau title, Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones...