Word: pigmentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beeswax, and cooks it over a slow fire for two hours, stirring often and being careful that it does not boil. He then stores the product, which is called black oil and looks like axle grease, in old mayonnaise jars. When he is ready to paint, he mixes each pigment he is using with black oil on the palette. Then in a palette cup he stirs up another mixture of (one teaspoon each) mastic varnish and black oil, and a few drops of stand oil and Venice turpentine. At work, he dips his brush first into the mixture...
...only conceivable rallying point of opposition to TANU is the racial question. TANU stands for racial equality and integration: "We care for the dignity of the human being, not about the pigment of his skin." When the leaders of the Congress are not whiling away the afternoon in a bar or visiting Peiping, they are insisting that the Indians (approximately 300,000) and the Europeans (about 3,000 permanent settlers) be thrown...
...latest publication, A Fly In The Pigment, is an outre novelette about art, Paris, philosophy, and modern society. The plot revolves around a housefly named Fanny who mysteriously escapes from his proper position in a Van Hoos still life (painted in the year 1675) and buzzes around observing modern life, until, absurdly, he dies. The press terms the disappearance "L'Affaire Ou est Fanny...
...Yeats' drawings and watercolors were on display at London's Waddington Galleries. Almost every one of them has been sold. Said Eric Newton in the Man chester Guardian: "His uniqueness lay in his extraordinary gift for turning an Irish brogue and a Celtic pilt into pigment...
...with the writer and painter, is effective and entertaining only so long as he speaks with the empassioned truth of his convictions--regardless of their complexion. Not even the HUAC would ask Pablo Picasso to explain his red period and name those artists with a propensity for a similar pigment...