Word: mica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mokkotsu or "boneless" technique, dropping pigment into wet pigment, staining and mottling the shapes of flowers, twigs and thunder-god with infinitely subtle gradations of color, preparing the paper with washes of gold or silver dust or with a snowy, glistening mixture of eggshell white and flakes of mica. These hallmarks-which must in their time have seemed very "Japanese," in elaborate contrast to the austerities of Chinese brush technique-helped form the Rimpa style, and were superbly developed by Ogata Korin, born a century after Koetsu. A part of Korin's signature (see calligraph) is now used...
...Shag, as Hanley calls the vast oven of interior Somaliland, one found the usual physical torments: heat, flies, the lack of fresh food and cold beer. Drinking from bitter desert water holes led to "Wajir clap," an excruciating urinary-tract disorder caused by sharp crystals of undissolvable mica and gypsum. Prickly heat could make a man rub himself raw against a wall, al though some relief could be had by spraying from head to toe with...
...separated from the way American Indians perceived nature: as an assembly not of dead earth and dumb plants, but of sentient presences. Some of this comes through in paintings like Star-Weaver, with their panoramic veils and zigzags of light, their flecks of paint that suggest flowers, mica deposits or dust: a soft immanence, vulnerable and pantheistic. Unfortunately, Wofford overworks his paintings. The light stiffens into crusts of inert pigment. But if the picture surface is sometimes cluttered, the effort to complicate it remains salutary and even brave...
...color page) seems bald at first-a run of identical flat sheets of galvanized iron, each 5 ft. by 4 ft., along the gallery wall. Then you notice the silvery flakes and washes caused by the galvanizing bath, rising through the darker metal and catching the light like mica, and that sense of program and frigidity goes. Says Judd: "There is a lot more variety in my work than is casually apparent." As indeed there is; for Judd's interrogation of sculpture has trimmed, but not excluded, its sensual beauty. ∙Robert Hughes
...Messy: Mica Ertegun, Chica's partner...