Word: hue
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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...
This one squeaks with shallow newness, walls too white and paint too fresh. For years, I complained about the rosy glow of my old pink bedroom. Pink wallpaper, pink canopy bed, pink curtains. Six when I picked the hue, I lived with it for 12 years. I quickly tired of it, but never convinced my parents to change it. Now, staring at the plain white walls of my new home, I miss the overwhelming, childish wash of color, remembering how my voice echoed off pinkness in that room. There is something institutional about these walls. Bigger and lighter and emptier...
This one squeaks with shallow newness, walls too white and paint too fresh. For years, I complained about the rosy glow of my old pink bedroom. Pink wallpaper, pink canopy bed, pink curtains. Six when I picked the hue, I lived with it for 12 years. I quickly tired of it, but never convinced my parents to change it. Now, staring at the plain white walls of my new home, I miss the overwhelming, childish wash of color, remembering how my voice echoed off pinkness in that room. There is something institutional about these walls. Bigger and lighter and emptier...
...perennially chic hue vivifies the now-hackneyed vodka martini--with Blavod and onion, the drink suddenly becomes a Full Moon at Midnight. Other groovy mixtures: Black Ice (on the rocks), Black Mary (bloody no more), Black & Blue (with curacao), Double Black (with sambuca) and Black Bumblebee (martini with a long lemon twist). The indispensable Screwdriver surprises by turning green when concocted with Blavod...
...perennially chic hue vivifies the now-hackneyed vodka martini--with Blavod and onion, the drink suddenly becomes a Full Moon at Midnight. Other groovy mixtures: Black Ice (on the rocks), Black Mary (bloody no more), Black & Blue (with curacao), Double Black (with sambuca) and Black Bumblebee (martini with a long lemon twist). The indispensable Screwdriver surprises by turning green when concocted with Blavod...