Word: pigmenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite colors of the Pre-Raphaelite painters was called Mummy Brown - and not out of joking affection. It was a warm pigment made from the bitumen used by ancient Egyptians to embalm their dead, famed for its preservative powers...
Freckle-faced Joyce Treiman hurls herself at canvas with the intuitive abandon of an action painter, piling on pigment in swooshes and swirls. What emerges is not abstraction but a troubling glimpse of the individual caught up in what she calls "a singular, momentary event." Her figures (see opposite page) seemingly wear the tatterdemalion costumes of burlesque or the circus. Some seem to be mimes from a private dream world; others, characters in a far-out fairy tale...
...BLUE. The color is defined not scientifically, with reference to pigment and wave length. For BLUE the Shorter waxes poetic. "Of the colour of the sky and the deep sea"; and also, "of a flame or flash without red glare; esp. in phr. To burn b, as a candle is said to do as an omen of death, or as indicating the presence of ghosts or of the Devil. (1994)" Also, the color associated with constancy, "hence, true-b," Or pertaining to the political party which has adopted blue as its color, in England, the Conservative. "To vote b." "Affected...
COLETTE BANGERT-Krasner, 1061 Madison Ave. at 80th. Watercolors employing the touch of the pointillists and the spectrum of the impressionists limit themselves to the exploration of hidden lights. A warm incandescence radiates from flecks of contrasting opaque pigment veneered over squiggles like Hebrew calligraphy. First New York showing. Through...
ENRICO DONATI-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. Slabs of textured pigment on canvas are built up out of what Donati calls "mixed media," and that can mean everything from sand to terra-cotta dust to ground marble. Twenty of his newest paintings...