What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting ... - Victoria Vesna

Abstract Expressionism, 89–94, 153
acid
glacial acetic, 128, 220 n.6
tannic, 68–9
acrylics, 123
active and passive, 53
Adam, 60–1
Adams, Ansel, 99
addition, 41–2
ages of man, the four, 61
Agricola, Georg, 26, 205 n.18
air, 60–1, 179
see also elements, Greek;
gases
Aiyangar, Srinivasa Ramanujan,
42
albedo, 63, 178
Albertus, Frater, 142
Alchemical Lexicon, 81
alchemical sisters, 177–8
alchemy
gates of, 145
Indian, 54, 102, 163
metallic, 162
schools of, 197
sexual or “human,” 162–6
spagyrical, 202 n.7
spiritual or meditative, 2, 4,
162–3
see also Great Work;
labor;
recipes;
Index
227
redemption;
soul;
stone, philosopher’s;
theoalchemy
alcohol, 62
alcynium, 28
alkahest, 181
alkali, 35
alkyl radical, 26
alla prima painting, 177
allegory, 4, 64, 72–3
alembic, 127
all in all, 46
allotropes, 38
alloys, 107–110
alum, 32, 82, 179
aluminum paint, 93
amalgam, 108
symbol of, 182
amber, 123
amethyst, 68
ammonia, 35
symbol of, 65
ammonium chloride, 31
amoris fœdere, 80
Ampitheater of Eternal Wisdom, 184
amputation, 123
androgyne, 83
anima, 156–7
Anima Saturni, 56
animals, 33, 61
sacred, 61