Word: pigmental
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...Unfortunately, Seurat opted to experiment with a newly available pigment, zinc yellow, that turned out to be highly unstable. Over time, it turned dull brown. Within a few years, wide areas of La Grande Jatte had darkened. For this show, the Art Institute has prepared a nearly full-scale reproduction that gives an idea of how the painting looked before the colors faded. Predictably, there was a radiance in some passages that?s lost to us now, but what?s interesting is how little the picture has been diminished by the decay of mere pigment. The fascination of La Grande...
...high def calls for thinner, better-blended foundations. Too much powder can make a star look mummy-like. Ken Diaz, makeup boss for the PBS series American Family, which is filmed in HDTV, waters down his bases. "It's a wash of color, like a stain, rather than a pigment," he says. Lori Madrigal, chief makeup artist for CBS's HD hit Joan of Arcadia, concedes that she no longer uses lip gloss on actresses. "Gloss looks like oil in high def," she says...
...rule, the books are intelligent, sometimes even ingenious, but in most, the underlying formula is plain: art plus sex. So Chevalier's new best seller, The Lady and the Unicorn, features Nicolas des Innocents, painter, tapestry designer and Renaissance stud--a guy who puts the pig in pigment...
...Judging by the splash that Julian Schnabel, the high diver of the contemporary American art scene, has been making in Frankfurt, it's still alive and kicking in the age of multimedia installations. At least that's true of Schnabel's brand of oil painting, in which buckets of pigment are applied to vast tarpaulins, sails and boxing-ring mats. His retrospective, "Julian Schnabel Paintings 1978-2003," at the Schirn Museum until April 25, has attracted more ink than anything since Christo wrapped up the Reichstag. Paint could hardly find a more forceful salesman. Schnabel's wide-ranging postmodern repertoire...
...lack of materials standards at that time meant that Rothko could not have known Lithol Red was a “fugitive” pigment...