Pigment

Laser Teeth Whitening Can Brighten Your Coffee-Stained Teeth If you sip on coffee all day long to keep you going, your teeth may be affected by it. Coffee contains pigments that get into the tiny ridges of your enamel and build up to create stains. If you confine coffee drinking to the morning and brush your teeth after you drink it, you're at less risk of developing stains than if you sip on coffee throughout the day. If you don't want to give up coffee or change your drinking habits, then you…

Note the glyphs on the periphery of the platter.” Based on this information provided, we understand that this piece was made from clay and fired to form a ceramic platter. It is hard to say if it was glaze fired or just painted with polychrome pigments. The description claims it to be a ceramic platter that could have been used to serve food. The…

Tiziano Vecellio’s Madonna and Child, painted in Venice in about 1508 is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Titian was one of the greatest Venetian artist of the sixteenth century and was well known for his remarkable use of color and for his appealing renderings of the human form. He contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance art which included painting allegories, portraits, mythologies, and pastoral landscapes with figures. The sacred figures in this painting are the Virgin…

When copper is exposed to air it oxides, which then cause the copper to form a green/bluish pigment that surrounds the copper entirely which is also known as Verdigris. A perfectly good example of verdigris is the Statue of Liberty which was made from pure copper which then oxides over a long period of time with oxygen as well as water causing…

Formerly known as the Anasazi, the Ancestral Puebloans dominated the present-day Four Corners region of the Southwest from about 500-1250 AD. The Ancestral Puebloans first settled in the plateau area where water was in abundance, initially located at Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, and Kayenta. They were basket-makers and hunter-gatherers who eventually migrated across the entire Colorado Plateau, including Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and southwestern Colorado. Around the first millennium BC, the…

(1907). The Fruit Dish (1909) followed displaying a very two dimensional view with analogous colors and choppy shading. In 1921, Picasso reached the peak of his style with the Three Musicians. It breathes pure, classic cubism with its simplicity, rich pigments, and…

This leaves quite a big gap until around 1960 when Makoto Fujimura was born. Now Makoto Fujimura is 57 years old and a religious abstract painter. He uses historical concepts, mineral pigments, and his faith to revamp the interpretation of King James Version of the Bible scriptures in modern abstract form. Golden Sea is an abstract mixed media artwork that Makoto Fujimura painted in commemoration of the 400 year anniversary of King James…

Illusory Superiority More common than true supremacy in Maycomb, the city focused on in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is illusory superiority. Nothing about having white skin, being a male, or a certain age makes an individual inherently superior to an African American, female, or adolescent, yet some think otherwise. Most Maycomb community members believe they are better then everyone else. Some townspeople are of the opinion that a person’s exterior appearance affects where he or she…

alternative to continuously shaving, waxing and plucking your unwanted hair. The most common cosmetic procedure that is done in the U.S., laser hair removal consists of a highly concentrated beam of light that is focused on your hair follicles. The pigment or melanin in your hair absorbs the light as heat, which goes all the way to the root and destroys it. This means the follicle cannot grow hair again. Our trained technicians can use the laser to pinpoint one hair at a time on your upper…

Idealistically, and maybe even naively, success is not the reflection of one’s race, but of their actions. However, it cannot be doubted that race is used as a means to undermine and suppress the success of many people of color. Within today’s culture there are a multitude of double standards developed by the hierarchy of race in which American society has been based. From the start of American colonization there were two aspects of importance; Anglo-Saxon ancestry and Christianity; both of…