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Naples yellow

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Naples yellow
n
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) a similar pigment consisting of a mixture of zinc oxide with yellow colouring matter
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) the colour of either of these pigments


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The entire exhibition is monochromatic in color, a tranquil medley of beige, naples yellow and whites, interrupted only by the black text on the walls.
There's often a grainy, the-drugs-are-kicking-in atmosphere in his otherwise bland scenes-weird colors are everywhere (a powdery, nearly Naples yellow highway; a muted chartreuse sky)- but in this case, "the pills," as Ted Berrigan once wrote, "aren't working.
1: An abstract painter I once knew told me that when he was a student he had an old professor who would constantly recommend the use of Naples yellow as the solution to practically any pictorial problem.
 
 
 
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