5 Comments
1] In China and Japan, white represents death and sickness.
2] White paint can come from zinc, chalk, barium or rice.
3] The greatest of whites is made of lead, which is often used as a primer to prepare before painting.
4] White paint is white because it reflects most light rays away from it.
5] Pliny wrote a formula of how to create lead paint; acid plus metal equals paint.
4 Questions
1] Why was some white paint made with manure?
2] Why was white paint so poisonous?
3] Why was white paint used for makeup? Wasn't it dangerous?
4] Why was lead exposure also known as "plumbism" or "saturnism"?
3 Vocabulary
1] Lethargy: the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic.
2] Assiduously: Constant in application or effort.
3] Biliously: Pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
2 Literary Terms
1] "Lead exposure made women seem like etheral spirits, almost like angels." - Simile.
2] "In cave 428, there were pictures of enlightened beings who looked like joke skeletons in reverse." -Simile.
1 Overview Sentence
White paint is often viewed as a dangerous color, signifying death and sickness.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Colors: Black and Brown
5 Comments
1] Pencil lead was once so rare that armed security guards in Northern England used to strip search miners.
2] White paint was a poison, although sweet tasting.
3] Black and brown paints were once said to be made from dead bodies.
4] According to one western classical legend, the first paint was black and first artist female.
5] Pencil "lead" contained no lead at all.
4 Questions
1] Why was lead so sacred in Northern England?
2] Why were juman corpses sometimes used to make black?
3] What are "chinese" pencils?
4] Who created the artbook of forging art?
3 Vocabulary
1] sublimed: elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.
2] Papyrus: a material on which to write, prepared from thin strips of the pith of this plant laid together, soaked, pressed, and dried, used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
3] Impermanence: not permanent or enduring; transitory.
2 Literary Terms
1] "..a sick man's fierce determination.." - Oxymoron
2] "..missile pop out of the cast like a cooked cake from a buttered tin." - Simile.
1 Overview Sentence
The origin of the colors black and brown comes from many places, even outrageous ones like how brown paint used to be made from dead bodies.
1] Pencil lead was once so rare that armed security guards in Northern England used to strip search miners.
2] White paint was a poison, although sweet tasting.
3] Black and brown paints were once said to be made from dead bodies.
4] According to one western classical legend, the first paint was black and first artist female.
5] Pencil "lead" contained no lead at all.
4 Questions
1] Why was lead so sacred in Northern England?
2] Why were juman corpses sometimes used to make black?
3] What are "chinese" pencils?
4] Who created the artbook of forging art?
3 Vocabulary
1] sublimed: elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.
2] Papyrus: a material on which to write, prepared from thin strips of the pith of this plant laid together, soaked, pressed, and dried, used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
3] Impermanence: not permanent or enduring; transitory.
2 Literary Terms
1] "..a sick man's fierce determination.." - Oxymoron
2] "..missile pop out of the cast like a cooked cake from a buttered tin." - Simile.
1 Overview Sentence
The origin of the colors black and brown comes from many places, even outrageous ones like how brown paint used to be made from dead bodies.
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