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

232 WHAT PAINTING IS
flying white, 12
fog, 82
foot
amputated, 123
swollen, 158–9
form, giver of, 103
formlessness, 85
formulas, see recipes
fossils, 27
fourfoldness, 57–64
French Academy, 119, 171
French Revolution, 111, 171
fresnel lens, 181
Freud, Lucien, 114
Freud, Sigmund, 155, 159–60
Ğābir Ibn Hajjān, 30–4, 76, 110, 183
gases, 25–6, 28–9, 71, 143
gasoline, 25–6, 127
gems, 27, 56
Genesis, 77, 85, 95
gesso, 103
Giacometti, Alberto, 148
Gilot, Françoise, 148
Giorgione, 170
glass, 32, 34, 82, 151
house of, 167
Glauber, Johann Rudolph, 81
glazes, 119, 139, 169–70, 174, 176
blue, 172
glue, see size
Gnosticism, 54
God, 56, 80–1, 85, 87, 113
Goethe, 150
gold, 27, 31, 56, 77–8, 122–3
as sun, 65
chloride, 68–9
dissolved by salt, 151
drawn out by mercury, 102
edible, 116
fool’s, 31
golden, 181
heart and shade of, 82
immature or “green,” 76
Indian, 82
leaves, 116
Mosaic, 182–3
powder, 21
rectified, 181
sick or leprous, 76
sophic, 183
symbol of, 65
vulgar, 183
white, 88
Golden Chain of Homer, 79–80
good and evil, 54
Gottlieb, Adolf, 50
gout, 149
granite, 56
grapes, 28
grease, 61, 72
Great Work, 84, 159, 168–80
in eighty-four steps, 168
in five steps, 179
in four steps, 178
in one step, 168
in seven steps, 179
in twelve steps, 179
see also labor
green, 63
see also Chromium Green;
Emerald Green;
Malachite Green;
verdigris;
Viridian
Green Lion, 128, 144
grey, 106, 115, 119
grisaille, 169, 175–6
gum, 84
gur, 162
gypsum, 32
Hades, 155
Haephestus, 185
hair, 149–50
Halcyon Stone, see stone
Hamilton, Ann, 70
hart’s horn, see stag, antlers