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...mark of shame on our country, how exactly is gay marriage the same? Bans on interacial marriage prohibited a man and a women who happened to be of different races from marrying, a discrimination against a union that would have been totally unremarkable if not for some differences in pigment. Bans on gay marriage prohibit something altogether quite different. You may believe that gay marriage is a good idea, as is your right, but it does a service to no one, the gay rights movement least of all, to gloss over such issues...
...inevitable far reaches. Pablo Picasso, 12 years younger, was still little known and working--though sometimes to surprising effect--with the dwindling resources of fin-de-siecle Symbolism. Both men were coming to grips with Cezanne and the means by which he represented space--with shallow patches of pigment that create the illusion of depth but still assert themselves as smears of pigment on the surface of the canvas. Matisse was the first to grasp its implications. But Picasso would drive further into them...
...sacred Buddhist sutras constitute a large portion of the exhibit’s works. Many of the sutra chapters include illustrations that accompany the calligraphic text. Beautifully detailed woodblock prints, both inked and touched up with gold pigment, make up the magnificent pages of the sutras. The copying of such texts was vital to the transmission of Buddhist beliefs and practices. Furthermore, it was considered a meritorious act that brought good fortune to both the patron who commissioned the work and the artist himself...
...meal, to yield 1 lb. of farmed salmon--an exchange that depletes the world supply of protein. The diet of farmed salmon lacks the small, pink-colored krill that their wild cousins eat, so the flesh of farmed fish is gray; a synthetic version of astaxanthin, a naturally occurring pigment, is added to the feed...
Hope resembles Updike too in her yearning to reach for transcendent states by way of the things of this world--food, landscape, pigment and, of course, sex. What she loves first about McCoy is not his art but the lean arc of his body and the feral escarpments of his face, with its "lovely low-relief episodes of muscle." If this is a novel in which people think and talk, it's a frisky one all the same. "I'm not terribly up on the actual sex lives of these artists," Updike admits, "except that they were sexy and they...