Word: pigmentation
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...blocks and dabs of red and blue pigment that pulsate across the surface of an early figurative Mondrian like Church at Zoutelande (1909-10), record the same reflective delight in the rhythm and energy of particles that he must have felt when painting his last, unfinished canvas, Victory Boogie-Woogie (1943-44). The ethical and mystical concerns that underlie Mondrian's abstracts had become apparent earlier still in such paintings as Passion Flower (1901). This Art Nouveau-flavored image had a curiously mundane origin: Mondrian suspected that his model had VD, and painted her face contorted into...
...many thousand canvases produced in the last 20 years have echoed the muscular writhing of brush marks, the suffusing, arbitrary color and the dense, pasty, almost edible pigment that Monet, in 1918, incorporated into The Willow? In a study of African lilies growing beside his pond, the "modernity" of Monet's vision becomes even more pronounced. There is no horizon line; the fragment of reality he chose tips and squashes itself against the picture plane. A whole historical style is predicted in the vibration and flicker of yellow light on the water, the excited scribbles round the lily pads...
...spreading out before the eye in a blaze of blue. Except for a few puffs of cloud, the sky is empty. Monet used only bright colors in this painting-reds, blues, greens and yellows -and he painted thin. The effect is purposely misleading; the viewer suspects that underneath the pigment lies not canvas, but porcelain...
...baby's bloodstream. In fact, many potentially harmful chemicals occur naturally in familiar foods. Spinach is rich in oxalic acid, which is the foundation for a common type of kidney stone. (Popeye in real life would have suffered endless agonies from passing stones.) Carotene, the pigment that puts the color in egg yolks, sweet potatoes, mangoes and carrots, is used by the body to make Vitamin A-but consumed in excess causes a kind of jaundice...
...miners had suffered chemical changes. He tried a chemical treatment. "It proved to be wrong," says the ebullient and totally unabashed Cotzias. Working on the analogous symptoms in parkinsonism at Brookhaven, he tried another drug treatment. This involved efforts to raise the brain's content of melanin, the pigment in suntanned skin. "Wrong again!" declares Cotzias, with the energy of a small volcano. "The patient's skin got darker, but the tremor got worse...