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Kunjufu said Biblical history is based in white myths and that Christianity originated in Egypt. He also cited City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries in saying that "our genes dominate" with respect to melanin, a skin pigment...
...body, play two basic roles Molecules derived from the water soluble vitamins such as vitamins B and C. help the body's enzymes complete a number of biochemical reactions Fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K perform a variety of functions from forming the light-sensitive pigment of the eye vitamin A to maintaining healthy skin vitamin...
...time she spent in France was very important to Jones' artistic development. She notes that she was influenced by Cezanne; the pieces "Antibes, 1986" and "Arreau-Hautes Pyrenees Village, 1949" reflect this in their sloping mountains and the application of light pigment in quick brush strokes...
...gripping is Stag at Sharkey's (1909), an image of orgiastic energy, the boxers' faces reduced to speed blurs of bloody paint, the bodies starkly gleaming under the carbide lights, locked in a triangle, the strain of muscles so assimilated into the physical life of the paintstrokes that the pigment runs over their contours. Bellows' contemporaries found such images "Hogarthian," but the closer ancestor of Stag at Sharkey's is late Goya. In particular the frieze of spectators' heads, yelling, gaping, sly, stupefied, brings to mind the faces in Goya's Witches' Sabbath or his Pilgrimage to the Miraculous Fountain...
...such a caveat. When Eclipse of the Earth by Kazuo Katase was installed last month, the work's dusty red coloring agent contained zinc sulfide and barium sulfate. The chemicals caused severe respiratory and skin problems for some employees, they claim. A staff memo admitted that "ingestion of the pigment will cause illness, and the inhalation of the dust is known to cause lung irritation." Although the powder was replaced 12 days later, three workers resigned and a fourth entered the hospital for treatment...