Word: pigmentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astronomer, for instance, they noticed how Vermeer illuminated a dim interior with a brilliant shaft of light falling through a window. In View of Delft, his only known landscape, they discovered Vermeer's use of pointillé-tiny dabs of pigment that look like crystals of light. In portraits, his delicate lighting seemed to illuminate the very soul of his subjects. The age of Manet was understandably dazzled...
...research has not yet established why the pigment is missing or how to supply it but he is continuing his research, The New Yorker article suggested...
...palette may soon be even more stupendous, once laser beams can be used to produce full-color, three-dimensional images (see SCIENCE). Already neon lighting has freed some artists from pigment to experiment with pure colors that need not be squeezed from their tubes. So far, those who have tried out this plug-in Promethean palette have achieved mostly primitive op and pop effects. A few who are pioneering in the new art medium...
...prodigiously gifted that he can marshal a whole new vocabulary of cinema to reiterate his now-familiar themes. The new element of Antonioni's art is color. In Red Desert he shows a painterly approach to each frame; indeed he had whole fields and streets sprayed with pigment to produce precise shades of mood and meaning. Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity, from craven yellow and life-brimming green to violent, passionate crimson and the grey of total despair...
...figure and ground; the theory is that such shifts move between stimulation and repose, possibly to relieve eyestrain. Richard Anuszkiewicz, 34, plays with afterimages, or the way one color engenders the false sensation of its complement on the retina. In his Union of the Four (at right), the red pigment throughout the painting is the same hue, despite what the eye sees...