Word: temperament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With critics who compare his slick, sterilized landscapes to picture postcards, fan decorations and candy-box covers, Artist Nichols has long waged dubious battle through a stream of open letters. Sample Nichols rebuke: "I still maintain that your reference to my tempera looking 'like a candy-box' is unfair to designers in the graphic arts. . . . Had you said that my painting looked like a bad candy-box cover I would not have objected...
...down his brushes, and thereby made news. For John Steuart Curry, in the ten years since he first hit his stride with a picture of violence called The Tornado, has become the most notable of U. S. regional artists. And his canvas was the second of two oil-and-tempera murals that will be -lifted into place next autumn on the walls of a corridor facing the General Land Office, on the fifth floor of the new Department of the Interior building in Washington...
...other young perfectionists, at the chemical impermanence of certain modern ready-made paint, Grosser began some years ago to grind and mix his own colors, a process in which he has taken infinite pains. Result is a clean brilliance of color made luminous by transparent strokes in oil over tempera underpainting...
...Used in tempera painting for "binding" pigments to retain brilliance and purity of color...
...utmost cold, absolute zero (zero on the Kelvin scale), comes out at - 273.13° on the arbitrary Centigrade scale (zero for the freezing point of water, 100 for the boiling point). Scientists have not quite chilled matter to absolute zero, and never expect to. Nevertheless, researches in cryogenics (low tempera ture) are important to the study of entropy, which is defined as the degree of randomness or lack of organization in the energy distribution of a closed system. The third law of thermodynamics states that at absolute zero there must be no entropy. The particles have two kinds of motion...