Word: pigmentation
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...story is sad but not hopeless. The culprit is more a fugitive red paint pigment that faded with exposure to sunlight than neglect by the infamous Harvard Corporation, the owners of the murals. It is a story easily sensationalized, and has readily been made into a pseudo-scandal, a skeleton in the university's closet. "Rothko had a very high, serious sense for the murals, which is partly a basis for problems that occurred later. I don't think that either side, Rothko or Harvard, had a full understanding of what to do with the murals. There was subliminal misunderstanding...
...literally like an irreversible reaction. Rothko, who in addition to being radically innovative with subject matter, was also extremely experimental with media, haphazardly using a variety of unstable compounds such as egg whites and cheap Woolworth's paint. For the Harvard murals, Rothko mixed ultramarine, a stable blue pigment, with lithol red, a highly non-colorfast red hue, to yield the then crimson background. The murals' appearance today is the result of fading due to ultraviolet radiation that shone through the bay window of the penthouse. Furthermore, after the installation, the penthouse was turned into a well-frequented University dining...
...arsenal of curious things an artist can do with colored pigment, Ann Hamilton summoned up the equivalent of a cruise missile and fired a shot heard round Venice's Grand Canal. Hamilton, 43, is this year's star-power artist officially representing the U.S. at the 48th Venice Biennale, the oldest of the international art expositions. With 59 countries participating and more than 100 artists on view through Nov. 7, there is, as ever, notable work amid a great deal of minor junk. At the opening, Hamilton's minimalist installation--four rooms that appear empty but for a shower...
Like many other experts, Adler discounts a once popular theory that the bloodstains are composed of microscopic particles of reddish pigment, bound in a tempera medium. While it is possible that there are traces of pigment on the shroud, says historian Wilson, they are most likely flakes from copies of the image that were pressed onto the shroud in an attempt to rub off some of its sanctity. Adler believes the image must have been triggered by some sort of radiation process. But he stays away from speculation as to whether such radiation could have been divine in origin...
...that she was much younger than I am and that she was much less educated than I am, when that girl called me a nigger, she assumed a role much larger than herself. She wasn't a person insulting me, but a body in white skin, whose lack of pigment represented the domination of one race over...