Word: pigmenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overexposure. Tanning is actually the skin's way of protecting itself. In a reaction to the sun's rays, the skin thickens and dark pigment moves to the surface from underlying layers to help absorb later radiation. Dark-skinned persons have a larger supply of such protective pigmentation at the surface and can take considerably more sun without burning. Redheads, blondes and fair-skinned persons run the greatest risk...
...comparable purposes, others in the show put before the viewer a psychological tension, an ambiguity, a presence that appears after a few minutes' looking. The greatest divorce from action painting lies in the works of the late Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis. Thinning oils with turpentine, they stained pigment into unsized canvas so that the brush stroke is invisible but the colors clash like a warring spectrum...
...photosynthesis all by themselves. Using isolated chloroplasts from spinach leaves, Dr. Arnon and his colleagues found that they could study the role of light without being bothered by the other chemical processes that take place in the normal plant cell. After tedious experiment, they decided that when green plant pigment (chlorophyll) is struck by sunlight its molecules become so excited that they shake loose some electrons. And those electrons eventually help to form some of the basic chemical substances necessary for photosynthesis...
...paint, Katayama kneels in Japanese style, with his feet tucked under, uses an ink of rock pigment, and brushes of wool or badger hair. It was the eyes of Industrialist Matsushita that most fascinated the artist, who found them at once serene and alert. "Eyes are the mirror of every human." says Katayama...
...Violin and Chamber Ensemble. As interpreted by the Orchestra of America last week, Orchestral Abstractions was jagged in profile, strong in rhythm and color, the solo instruments, particularly the brasses in the last movement, in fascinating juxtaposition with a curtain of translucent strings. The effect suggested flashes of pigment seen through swiftly running water...