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liquid commitment that turns a wall into a decision and a brush into a confession
means To apply colored liquid to a surface for protection or decoration, or to create an image with such liquid; also the colored liquid itself.
from From Old French 'peint,' the past participle of 'peindre' (to paint), which traces back to Latin 'pingere' — to paint, embroider, or tattoo. That same Latin root quietly fathered 'picture,' 'pigment,' and 'depict,' so every painted wall is a distant cousin of every portrait. 'Pingere' may go back even further to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to cut, scratch, or prick' — a hint that the first 'painting' might have been less a brushstroke than a mark gouged into a surface.
- ancient art
- Cave paintings predate writing by tens of thousands of years
- toxic past
- Lead and arsenic once made the brightest, deadliest colors
- vantablack rivalry
- Artists fought legal wars over owning the blackest black
- drying chemistry
- Oil paint hardens by oxidizing, not by water evaporating
- trillion shades
- The human eye distinguishes roughly a million distinct colors
mona lisa — leonardo da vinci's 1503-1519 oil painting at the louvre, world's most famous artwork
starry night — vincent van gogh's 1889 oil painting of a swirling sky over a village in saint-rémy-de-provence
the persistence of memory — salvador dalí's 1931 surrealist painting featuring melting clocks in catalonia