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MELLOW YELLOW Long thought to help prevent blindness, a golden-hued antioxidant called lutein may also be good for the heart. In a study of 480 healthy men and women, those whose blood contained high levels of the pigment, found in dark green leafy vegetables, were less likely to develop clogged arteries, which often trigger heart attacks and strokes...
...coined the term “Neoplasticism” to describe his work gets his due from technological innovation. With x-radiography, UV and infrared studies, as well as stereomicroscope analysis to examine pigment changes, the conservationists at the Fogg have managed to discover a wealth of information literally behind the lines...
...WIRED FASHION Clever Clothes Last week Parisian designer Elisabeth de Senneville showed off the first jackets to have protection against cell phone radiation woven in. Costumes that change color in response to alterations in temperature, thanks to microencapsulated pigment, have been on sale at her shop (see www.e2senneville.com) for a year. If you'd like window blinds that are gray when it rains but blue when the sun comes out, rush to Paris' famous La Samaritaine department store. De Senneville also designs garments with optical fiber trim that glows in the dark courtesy of a concealed battery...
...sheep upon a rock. A more likely tale has him haunting Cimabue's Florentine bottega until the painter made him an apprentice. There Giotto absorbed his mentor's strength of drawing and sense of drama, but nature was his true teacher. He divined how to depict, with brush and pigment, the human body according to the prescription of St. Francis: "Your God is of your flesh. He lives in your nearest neighbor, in every...
Rockwell could. He knew how a few brushstrokes can mimic wet hair, effulgent sunlight, gunmetal, crinoline, catsup, cardboard, painted brick and polished linoleum. And he got those effects without losing sight of the muddy pleasure of pigment itself, a fundamental notion of modern painting. In a few inches of sailcloth or the slip worn by his Girl at Mirror, he could put white paint through as many adventures as Robert Ryman does in his snow-flurry abstractions. As for his pieties, they turn out sometimes to be the same ones fundamental to civil society. By nothing less than an actual...