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

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symbols of, 65, 79–80, 113, 123
synonyms for, 62
tincture of, 183
merga, 27
metals, 78–9, 82, 84
alloy of, 108–9
see also under individual metals
metamorphosis, 121–2
metempsychosis, 132
Meyer, 39
mica, 32
Michelangelo, 99–100
microcosm, 81
triune, 187
milk, 21, 57, 70, 82, 168
Milton, John, 88
mineral, see water, mineral
mineral oil, see oil, mineral
mines, 28
monad, 43, 46–50, 80, 187
Mondrian, Piet, 125
Monet, Claude, 9–19, 30, 45, 96–7,
106–7, 115
moon, 53, 63, 82
as Luna, 39, 53, 151, 158
as silver, 65
spittle of, 82
planet, 107
tincture of, 56
moon-tree, 53
Moor, see Ethiops mineral
mother, 82, 151, 157–60
Mother Eagle, 163
mould, 68–9, 76
movies, 124
mucus membranes, 163
mud, 69–70, 85
Muir, Pattison, 112
multiples, 41
multiplication, 145
mummies, 24, 149
musk, 149
Mylius, Johann Daniel, 29, 177–8
Mysterium coniunctionis, 156
Mystery of Picasso, The, 171
nail clippings, 149
naphtha, 127
Naples Yellow, 51, 106
National Gallery of Art, 7
Natural and Supernatural Things,
On, 187
navel, 149
Neo-Expressionism, 121
Neptune, 185
neurosis, 94–5
New Age, 198–9
New Light of Phosphorus, 185
nickel, 31
nigredo, 63, 178
nitre, 28, 105
nitric acid, 182
symbol of, 222 n.17
nitrogen, 28
Noah, 87
Nolde, Emil, 117–9, 122, 141
numbers, 40–67
abstract and corporeal, 44, 57
even and odd, 47
triangular and square, 53
numerology, 42–3
Ochre, 13, 50, 93, 106, 195
Yellow Ochre, 12
octane, 26
Oedipus, 157–61
complex, 160
oil, 1–2, 20–1, 23, 25–6, 70, 126–8,
173
and water, 24, 37
as sulfur, 53
black, 20
crude, 127
diesel, 26
essential, 127
hazelnut, 123
linseed, 23, 104, 110, 123
mineral, 102